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Word entry · 5 letters

clump

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"Small cluster"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /klʌmp/Part of speech verb, nounSorted clmpuStarts with CEnds with P1 cluesCommon crossword word
1C2L3U4M5P

Definitions

  1. gather or cause to gather into a cluster

Word origin

From Middle English clompe, from Old English clymppe, a variant of clympre (“a lump or mass of metal”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), from Proto-Indo-European *glembʰ- (“lump, clamp”).

Used in a sentence

  • There are suitable clumps of gorse a little way back, sir. I anticipate that you would be quite safe there, or I would not suggest it, sir.
  • clump of trees
  • She [Miss Climpson] asks questions which a young man could not put without a blush. She is the angel that rushes in where fools get a clump on the head.

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