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clod

/klod/US // klɒd //UK // (klɒd) //

蛤蜊,蛤蚧,蛤蛎,蛤蛎子

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a lump or mass, especially of earth or clay.
    • : a stupid person; blockhead; dolt.
    • : earth; soil.
    • : something of lesser dignity or value, as the body as contrasted with the soul: this corporeal clod.
    • : a part of a shoulder of beef.

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Examples

  • Eventually, the carbon that was once a leaf can become trapped in clods of earth.

  • One teenager recalled seeing  a boy his age pitch a clod of dirt at a mounted [Union] officer.

  • The News of the World and the Mirror both went with the punnier, " Hand of Clod."

  • Darling, don't you see—it's because you aren't a clod, because you're sensitive and imaginative that you experience fear.

  • The asphaltus is a clod of earth, liquefied by heat; the air forces it to the surface, where it spreads itself.

  • Go over it again and again until not a lump or clod remains in it.

  • Do I not daily curse this weak, lust-loving clod of flesh that holdeth prisoner a mind that at least once dreamed noble dreams?

  • "I won't become a clod-hopper," I exclaimed, seeing the dreary, endless monotony of such a life.