clodding

The trade chatter may titillate sports-radio hosts, and the game's TV ratings remain robust, but franchises are being forced to surgically remove their own hearts, leaving the NBA rampant with zombie teams, clodding around the schedule, no threat to the postseason.

Some Lin-iment for the NBA Jason Gay 2012

Avery still with the gun strapped over her shoulder, her close-cropped bangs, her small feet in army boots clodding through the open brown field we were now in.

She Closed Her Eyes 2010

At eleven I attempted to “stir briskly” and recalled the heavy, clodding feeling of trying to run through a muddy field.

CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

At eleven I attempted to “stir briskly” and recalled the heavy, clodding feeling of trying to run through a muddy field.

CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

At eleven I attempted to “stir briskly” and recalled the heavy, clodding feeling of trying to run through a muddy field.

CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

It's possible that his large strides and massive clodding was meant to add some gravitas to the rather flitty business going on about him.

Fucking Articulate 2004

He took a good scolding about clodding Sid, and did not seem to mind it in the least.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer 2003

According, as soon as his too ardent mind judged that the hands of the clock must be drawing near to midnight, Tam arose, and, rousing a farm boy to bear the light for him as he struck, with "clodding waster" in hand set off for the river.

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

Nevertheless, there was in that, too, a strong element of excitement, for the weapon used, the clodding or throwing leister, required no mean skill in the using.

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

Now this clodding waster (or leister) was a possession of which Tam was inordinately proud; amongst his friends its temper and penetrating power were proverbial.

Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang