clod

Meanings

Noun

• A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
• The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
• A stupid person; a dolt.
• Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.

Verb

• To pelt with clods.
• To throw violently; to hurl.
• To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.

Origin

• From Middle English clod, a late by-form of clot, from Old English clot, from Proto-West Germanic *klott. Compare clot and cloud; cognate to Dutch klodde and kloot.