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- adjective Containing
clay . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
clay .
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Examples
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In the Northern Philippines "clayed" sugar (Spanish, _Azúcar de pilon_) is made.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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Sugar packed in this way is deliverable to shippers, whereas "clayed" sugar can only be sold to the assorters and packers
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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We ate Little Gem lettuces straight from the red-clayed Devon earth and rubbed fennel tops until our fingers smelled of anise.
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Chase beamed at his old shipmate, then went to the quarterdeck, which was thickly crowded with officers who politely removed their hats as Chase and Sharpe were ushered aft past the great wheel and under the poop to the Admiral's quarters, which were guarded by a single Marine in a short red jacket crossed by a pair of pipe-clayed belts.
Sharpe's Trafalgar Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2000
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That her bodyguard go almost naked - but with pipe-clayed cartridge belts, behind a band playing ` The British Grenadiers '?
Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977
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Hardy, carefully hanging up his spotless, glossy equipment at the head of his cot, turned to the farrier who was likewise engaged in arranging a bridle and a pipe-clayed headrope.
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
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The different species of commercial sugar usually met with in this country, are four, viz: -- brown, or muscovado sugar (commonly called moist sugar); clayed sugar, refined or loaf sugar, and sugar candy; these varieties are altogether dependent on the difference in the methods employed in their manufacture.
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About a third of this is raw sugar, the rest is clayed or refined.
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Pipe-clayed belts, for example, have disappeared, except in the marine corps.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Standish can there walk up and down before his pipe-clayed bandoleers in foreign colonies.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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