Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Patched; mended with clouts; mended or put together clumsily; cobbled: as, clouted shoes.
- Clothed or covered with clouts or patched garments; ragged: as, a clouted beggar.
- Studded, strengthened, or fastened with cloutnails.
- A variant of
clotted .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
clout .
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Examples
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Also, the students who were denied admission in favor of the clouted are the victims, not the administrators, who were not the same as “victims” of a robbery.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Illinois Faculty Respond to the Tribune: 2009
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My father stood at his door and held in his upraised hand a pair of villainous boots, old and "clouted," fit for the Gibeonites, very different from the substantial English aids to the understanding which he had placed in all good faith outside his door the previous night.
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But then Pandorama 'clouted' three out, surely knocking his confidence at a crucial stage of the contest.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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The probe was to determine whether some students were being "clouted" in.
CBS 11 / TXA 21 - Dallas / Fort Worth's Source for Breaking News, Weather, and Sports 2009
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She came upon a boy, breech-clouted and bare, like a copper god.
CHAPTER 2 2010
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Grey Beaver clouted him right and left to make him get up and follow.
The Mad God 2010
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His horsemanship on a mount who had clouted two fences on the first circuit had some of the best judges of jockeyship cooing up in the stands.
Fabio Capello has failed to help England's elite beat their demons | Paul Hayward 2011
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Grey Beaver clouted White Fang alongside the head, so that he cowered down close to the earth in respectful obedience.
The Mad God 2010
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I was afterward to learn, and also, as I was to learn, a handy thing to clutch hold of with one hand whilst you clouted with the other when an argument went beyond words.
Chapter 15 2010
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The brown, breech-clouted Kanaka sailors moved languidly but quickly to head-sheets and boom-tackles.
THE PEARLS OF PARLAY 2010
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