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clodded

clodded is the simple past and past participle of clod.

Meaning of clod

Verb

clod (third-person singular simple present clods, present participle clodding, simple past and past participle clodded)

  1. (transitive) To pelt with clods.
    • "When I went there yesterday evening in the gloaming it had crept down and was trying to catch the little speckled fishes that play in the pool, and I had to clod it to make it go up the tree again and let them alone."1906, Mark Twain, Eve's Diary
  2. (Scotland, transitive) To throw violently; to hurl.
    • "So, sir, she grippit him, and clodded him like a stane from the sling ower the craigs of Warroch-head"1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown...
  3. To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.
    • Clodded in lumps of clay.1610, Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victorie and Triumph

See all 7 meanings of clod

Adjective

clodded (not comparable)

  1. Covered in clods.
    • In the hollow by the park wall it appeared again, distinctly; and here it was plain the transit of the wall had been made, for the traces of the mud were evident enough upon its surface, and the mortar at top was displaced, and a little tuft of grass in the mud, left by the clodded shoesole.1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard

Words formed from clodded

Questions about clodded

What does clodded mean?
Clodded means covered in clods.
What is clodded the simple past and past participle of?
Clodded is the simple past and past participle of clod.
What part of speech is clodded?
Clodded is an adjective.

Words near clodded in the dictionary

  1. clodanolene
  2. clodantoin
  3. clodazon
  4. clodcrusher
  5. clodcrushers
  6. clodded
  7. cloddier
  8. cloddiest
  9. cloddily
  10. cloddiness
  11. clodding

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