i Register
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noun
A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
clump of trees
A dull thud.
She [Miss Climpson] asks questions which a young man could not put without a blush. She is the angel that rushes in where fools get a clump on the head.
Thus, the myths of cinema and syndicated cartoon have served to unite the diverse races far more than the clump of the cricket-ball and the clipped rebukes and laudations of their masters.
The compressed clay of coal strata.
clump-burned bricks
A small group of trees or plants.
verb
To form clusters or lumps.
To gather in dense groups.
To walk with heavy footfalls.
To strike; to beat.
There is his poor little cap hanging up on the door; and there on the table is the knife he chipped a piece out of through not minding the mark on the knife machine, and I clumped his head for him, poor lamb!