clove
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VERB + CLOVE
ate, eating, hand-rolled, make, pounds, smoking, tie
CLOVE + NOUN
cigarette, cloves, garlic, hitch, miasma, sea-onion, shallot
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noun
A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.
A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.
An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.
Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6+¹⁄₂ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. The 'Pathway' points out the etymology of the word cloves; it calls them ' claves or nails.' It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
By a statute of 9 Hen. VI. it was ordained that the wey of cheese should contain 32 cloves of 7 lbs. each, i.e. 224 lbs., or 2 cwts.
noun
One of the small bulbs formed in the axils of the scales of a large bulb.
clove of garlic, garlic clove, clove of a sea-onion, clove of shallot, cloves of bulbs
noun
A narrow valley with steep sides, used in areas of North America first settled by the Dutch
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6Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6+¹⁄₂ tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. The 'Pathway' points out the etymology of the word cloves; it calls them ' claves or nails
WiktionaryBy a statute of 9 Hen. VI. it was ordained that the wey of cheese should contain 32 cloves of 7 lbs. each, i.e. 224 lbs., or 2 cwts.
Wiktionaryclove of garlic, garlic clove, clove of a sea-onion, clove of shallot, cloves of bulbs
WiktionaryA clove cigarette miasma made navigating the pub like swimming underwater.
Tatoeba · #719165Is eating a clove of garlic every day beneficial to your health?
Tatoeba · #953982I don't know how to tie a clove hitch.
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