clod
noun
a lump or mass, especially of earth or clay.
cloddy
-
a word derived from
clod.
Example Sentences
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Will a soil that is fine and compact produce better crops than one that is loose and cloddy?
From Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition by Charles William Burkett
The glorious sun, Stays in his course, and plays the alchemist; Turning, with splendor of his precious eye, The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold.
From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
As a race, sir, we are not destined to continue the sordid, cloddy, and vulgar eating people we now are.
From The Cambrian Sketch-Book Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales by R. Rice Davies
Buckwheat may be made profitable upon a piece of rough or newly cleared ground: No other crop is so effective in mellowing rough, cloddy land.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 286, June 25, 1881 by Various
Young cotton plants do not grow well in cloddy ground.
From How to Prosper in Boll Weevil Territory by G. H. Alford
