Clod meaning

Noun: clod

Pronunciation: (klod)

Clod meaning:

1. A compact mass. A lump of earth or clay. Synonyms: ball, chunk, clump, glob, lump
2. An awkward stupid person. Synonyms: clodhopper, gawk, goon, lout, lubber, lummox, lump, oaf

Quotations: William Henry Harrison – I am the clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County at your service. Some folks are silly enough to have formed a plan to make a president of the U.S. out of this clerk and clod hopper.

George Bernard Shaw – The true joy of life is being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.

Liberty Hyde Bailey – Even though the college man raises no more wheat than his neighbor, he will have more satisfaction raising it. He will know why he turns the clod; he will challenge the worm that burrows in the furrow; his eyes will follow the field mouse that scuds under the grass; he will see the wild fowl winging its way across the heaven. All these things will add to the meaning of life and they are his.

Guru Nanak – He may ease himself, having covered ,the ground with sticks, clods, leaves, grass, and the like, restraining his speech, keeping himself pure, wrapping up his body, and covering his head.

Mark Twain – Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn’t reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could’ve held out a little longer, maybe I could’ve got one.

Sample sentences:

1. To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same.
2. Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
3. Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art.
4. Let him not crush earth or clods, nor tear off grass with his nails, let him not do anything that is useless or will have disagreeable results in the future.
5. Leaving the dead body on the ground like a log of wood, or a clod of earth, the relatives depart with averted faces, but spiritual merit follows the soul .
6. He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world.
7. In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
8. A man who crushes clods, tears off grass, or bites his nails, goes soon to perdition, likewise an informer and he who neglects ,the rules of purification.
9. No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a part of a continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends.
10. We found clod of earth containing cocoon of fish.