Clod

(n.) A lump or mass, especially of earth, turf, or clay.

(n.) The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.

(n.) That which is earthy and of little relative value, as the body of man in comparison with the soul.

(n.) A dull, gross, stupid fellow; a dolt

(n.) A part of the shoulder of a beef creature, or of the neck piece near the shoulder. See Illust. of Beef.

(v.i) To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot; as, clodded gore. See Clot.

(v. t.) To pelt with clods.

(v. t.) To throw violently; to hurl.

整理:莉莲

• She took a little clod of earth from the broken ground where he had stumbled, and threw it in. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• He was just in the act of throwing a clod at a mud-turtle which was sunning itself on a small log in the brook. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Those words fell on his heart like clods upon a coffin. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Moreover, fifty yards off stood a hut, built of clods and covered with thin turves, but now entirely disused. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Are they really animals and clods, and beings of another order? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• At one side of the pool rough steps built of clods enabled everyone who wished to do so to mount the bank; which the woman did. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.

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