Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Consisting of clods; abounding with clods.
- Earthy; mean; gross.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of clods; full of clods.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Characterized by the presence of
clods .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I am the unquenched spark ever flashing and astonishing the face of time, ever working my will and wreaking my passion on the cloddy aggregates of matter, called bodies, which I have transiently inhabited.
Chapter 12 2010
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Already, have I not shown you, my reader, that in previous times, inhabiting various cloddy aggregates of matter, I have been Count
Chapter 12 2010
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David HartThe Vows Moment Wobbles the SonnetI've walked the valley path in sticky rainto see the person I met in a caff by luck lost to the world out on a cloddy trackfull of ache, done-for-almost, in foul pain –Enough, I love you.
Poems for a wedding 2011
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Raised in a fashion prison run by her thrift-store parental wardens (Joan Cusack and John Goodman), the adult Rebecca (the redhead Isla Fisher) long ago unshackled her cloddy shoes and jumped into the pool of fashion excess.
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My new favorite is brown Basmati rice, which is more of a whole grain but not so terribly chewy or cloddy.
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Some weeks earlier they had prepared the garden carefully, plowing and sweetening the dirt with fireplace ashes and manure from the barn and then harrowing the cloddy ground, Ruby driving the horse while Ada rode the drag to add weight.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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Some weeks earlier they had prepared the garden carefully, plowing and sweetening the dirt with fireplace ashes and manure from the barn and then harrowing the cloddy ground, Ruby driving the horse while Ada rode the drag to add weight.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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By tillage, create a rough, cloddy surface which lengthens the time necessary for the rain to break down the clods and seal the surface.
28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture 1996
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Purposes of Tillage Operations: a. To produce a rough, cloddy surface that will increase moisture absorption and reduce runoff, as well as erosion from wind and water.
28 additional technical notes about tropical agriculture 1996
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The stony soils and the coarse, cloddy seedbed preparation with the fuador render the use of further animal-drawn implements more difficult, especially for seeding.
1. Overview 1991
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