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clod

Best crossword clue

"A compact mass"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /klɒd/Part of speech nounSorted cdloStarts with CEnds with D1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. A lump of earth, or a dull and awkward person.

Word origin

From Middle English clod, a late by-form of clot, from Old English clot, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“mass, ball, clump”). Compare clot and cloud; cognate to kloot (“clod”).

Used in a sentence

  • clods of iron and brass
  • 1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), originally published in 1581 by Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered clods of blood
  • The earth that casteth up from the plough a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod.

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