clod
蛤蜊,蛤蚧,蛤蛎,蛤蛎子
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Definitions
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- : 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.