clod
noun
a lump or mass, especially of earth or clay.
cloddy
-
a word derived from
clod.
Example Sentences
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The following terms are used in describing soil textures: Coarse, fine, open, close, loose, hard, stiff, compact, soft, mellow, porous, leachy, retentive, cloddy, lumpy, light, heavy.
From The First Book of Farming by Charles Landon Goodrich
A splendid powerful dark bay draught mare, with small head, strong, shapely, arching neck, good shoulders, and long enough in body not to look cloddy.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
Sun.—The glorious sun stays in his course, and plays the alchemist, turning with the splendor of his precious eyes the meagre, cloddy earth to glittering gold.—Shakespeare.
From Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou
If the soil is left lumpy and cloddy then capillary water cannot rise readily from below to take the place of that which is lost by evaporation.
From The First Book of Farming by Charles Landon Goodrich
On the other hand, the hazard would be even greater to sow clover on these soils when in a cloddy condition.
From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Thomas Shaw
