clumpn.
/klʌmp/, U.S. /kləmp/ 1.
a. A compact mass or piece, a heap, a lump (often implying clumsiness of form).
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > [noun] > a dense or solid thing or body
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goba1382
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gobbetc1384
clustera1387
lumpa1400
grume1555
solidity1604
concrescence1610
concression1613
concretion1646
ponderant1656
condensation1665
clumper1673
clue1674
solid1698
clump1699
wodge1847
density1858
boulder1861
doorstop1967
swadge1968
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > mass formed by collection of particles > dense or compact
clota1000
massa1382
gobbetc1384
clustera1387
lumpa1400
wedge1577
loaf1598
knot1631
clumper1673
clue1674
clump1699
lob1825
wodge1847
nugget1851
density1858
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Clump, a Heap or Lump.
1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 120 Frog Spawn..is brought forth in a clump.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Clump, a shapeless piece of wood or other matter, nearly equal in its dimensions.
1768 D. Monro in Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 503 In this crystallisation the salt seemed to form in clumps.
1868 ‘E. Garrett’ Occup. Retired Life (1869) vii. 141 A baker gave me a clump o' bread.
1872 J. D. Dana Corals & Coral Islands ii. 144 The bluff declivity with its clinging clumps.
b. A clump-built ship. U.S.
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1830 S. Breck Recoll. (1877) iii. 139 But our brig was a clump, and made but small way.
c. A staff; a heavy stick. dialect.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun]
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treec893
cudgelc897
stinga900
bat?c1225
sticka1275
clubc1275
truncheon14..
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warderera1400
plantc1400
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ploykc1450
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batonc1550
macana1555
libbet1562
bastinado1574
crab-tree comb1593
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crab-bat1647
kibbo1688
Indian club1694
batterdasher1696
crab-stick1703
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kierie1731
oaken towel1739
crab1740
shillelagh1772
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whirlbat1791
nulla-nulla1798
waddy1800
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supple1815
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hurlet1825
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blackthorn1829
bastera1833
twig1842
leangle1845
alpeen1847
banger1849
billy1856
thwack-stave1857
clump1868
cosh1869
nulla1878
sap1899
waddy1899
blunt instrument1923
1868 Notes & Queries 4th Ser. II. 152/2 He knocked and thump'd wi' his oaken clump.
d. A blow, knock. colloquial.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > [noun] > a stroke or blow > specific on a person
buffet?c1225
flatc1320
boxc1330
rapc1330
plaguea1382
puncha1450
buffc1475
jowl?1516
beff1768
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fib1814
cob1828
one1876
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clump1889
one in the eye1891
conk1898
fourpenny one1936
a sock in the eye1972
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1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat i. 7 They didn't give me pills; they gave me clumps on the side of the head.
1894 R. D. Blackmore Perlycross III. vi. 112 He dropped on the flags with a clump in his ear.
e. A heavy, clumping sound, esp. of a boot or shoe.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > repeated sound or succession of sounds > [noun] > sound of footsteps
stepa1616
tramping1660
stump1690
tit-tat1699
treading1709–10
pad1879
plod-plodding1881
heels1883
flip-flop1889
clump1891
pid-pad1900
plod1902
clomp1912
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [noun] > non-resonant impact sound > thud
daud1596
sosh1687
soss1718
devel1787
dump1820
thud1825
duff1859
pob1871
thrump1871
clump1891
plonk1903
plodding1905
plup1911
wumph1913
whump1915
whomp1926
whumping1928
clonking1930
bonk1933
bonking1944
thuck1948
doof1989
1891 J. J. H. Burgess Rasmie's Büddie 10 Da crackin o shairs, an da clump o a clug.
1982 W. Boyd Ice-cream War i. i. 13 He climbed the stairs, acutely aware of the clump of his boots on the wood.
2.
a. ‘A cluster of trees; a tuft of trees or shrubs’ (Johnson); now also, a compact mass or patch of any growing plant, e.g. a clump of lily of the valley.
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the world > plants > plants collectively > [noun] > tuft, clump, or cluster of plants
hassockc1450
tuft?1523
tusk1530
tush1570
hill1572
dollop1573
clumpa1586
rush1593
trail1597
tussock1607
wreath1610
stool1712
tump1802
sheaf1845
massif1888
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > clump or cluster
hata1425
tuftc1450
plumpa1470
clumpa1586
turb1618
hummock1636
toll1644
bush1856
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > cluster
lumpc1380
clustera1400
knotc1400
community?1541
plump1553
clustering1576
clumpa1586
grove1667
skein1709
snuggle1901
a1586 Answ. Cartwright 44 Are a clump of fruite trees called an orcharde, yf they stand open in the fielde without a fence?
1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. I. 117 Two large Clumps of Scots Fir Trees.
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. ii. 117 It [sc. the bittern] builds its nest..on some dry clump among the reeds.
1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. i. 3 A large clump of bananas.
1841 R. W. Emerson Friendship in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 212 That clump of waving grass that divides the brook.
1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 369 New clumps of young plants.
b. By extension, a compact group of other objects. Also applied to a group of people.
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1854 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 20 Sept. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. ii. 124 The clump of village-houses.
a1891 Mod., Crochet Directions. Clump of four long stitches; clump of six long stitches.
1896 Harper's Mag. Apr. 772/1 Clumps of Frenchmen were smashed to pieces, one on top of the other.
c. Printing. (See quots.)
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society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > furniture surrounding matter in chase > specific
quoin1570
reglet1636
foot-stick1683
side stick1683
clump1875
galley-stick1888
1875 J. Southward Dict. Typogr. (ed. 2) 14 Metal clumps are used in place of white-lines at the bottom of newspaper and other columns to protect the letters from slipping in locking-up, when the foot-stick is short. They are cast in the same manner as leads, only of a thicker body.
1898 J. Southward Mod. Printing (1910) I. xii. 87 Clumps are thick pieces of type metal, ranging in width from pearl to double pica, and of the height of leads. They are used in whiting out, also as footlines at the bottoms of columns and pages.
1922 W. H. Slater What Compositor should Know 54 Clumps is the name given to leads when they are cast thicker than 3 pt.
d. An agglutinated mass of bacteria, blood cells, or platelets.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of blood > [noun] > coagulated blood > clot or clump
blood-liverOE
clod1398
congelation1483
shed1513
clot1611
grume1718
coagulum1767
blood clot1805
clump1939
sludge1947
1896 Proc. Royal Soc. 1895–6 59 225 The most prominent of the effects..consists of an immediate aggregation of the bacteria into ‘clumps’; this is combined with loss of motility.
1899 G. Newman Bacteria App. 343 The clumps of bacilli having fallen owing to gravity.
1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 81/2 The tendency the corpuscles have to run into clumps.
1939 J. H. Dible & T. B. Davie Pathol. iii. 38 The massing of a number of platelets which adhere and form a minute clump upon the inside of the vessel wall.
1964 M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 8) vii. 85 When antibody reacts with the antigenic surface of bacteria, the bacteria are agglutinated into clumps which fall down as coarse floccules.
3. clumps n. a parlour game of questions and answers, also called clubs.Played by two sides; two members, one from each side, agree upon the name of something; each side then gathers in a close group or clump round the member of the other side, and tries to find out from him by questions, answered only by ‘yes’ or ‘no’, the thing thought of, the contest being to try which side shall first succeed in doing this.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > question and answer games
purposec1380
questions and commands1628
cross-purposes1666
cross-questions and crooked answers1742
Yes and No1843
truth1868
clumps1883
truth game1908
1883 M. E. Braddon Golden Calf xxvii. 314 Charades, clumps, consequences, dumb crambo.
4. A thick extra sole on a shoe, either added outside the sole proper after the shoe is made, or inserted between the sole and bottom of the shoe in the process of making. [In this use the word has apparently passed through the senses of wooden shoe, wooden sole or clog, to that of extra thick sole.] Hence clump-boot n. = clump-shoe n. clump-shoe n. a heavy boot or shoe with a clump-sole n. or thick double sole for rough wear; whence clump-soled adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > [noun] > types of
crakowc1367
veldskoen1822
lace-up1824
right1825
purrer1827
stitchdown shoe1840
clump-sole1879
high-top1895
low-tops1913
zip-up1942
peep-toe1947
Dr. Martens1969
waffle stomper1974
1879 M. E. Braddon Cloven Foot xxxiv. 266 Put on your waterproof and clump soles.
5. Mining. The compressed clay of coal strata; = clunch n.
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1865 in W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit., & Art
6. Used for clamp n.1
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1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 317 The frame carrying the dividing-point or tracer..may be there fastened by tightening two clumps.
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 69 Supported by iron clumps called knees.
Compounds
clump-block n. Nautical (see quots.).
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c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 37 Clump blocks used..for lower tacks and sheets, clews of topsails, etc.; or where a short and thick block will answer the purpose of the common ones.
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 34 They are rove through iron-bound clump blocks.
clump-boot n. etc., see 4.
clump-built adj. ? clumsily built.
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1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. II. vi. v. 115 Those two clump built Albany sloops.
clump-foot n. = club-foot n.; (cf. clumped adj. 1).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > of foot > foot
splay-foot1548
stump foota1568
polt-foot1578
club-foot1683
bumble foot1832
reel foot1835
pigeon toe1888
clump-foot1922
rocker foot1934
1922 Chambers's Jrnl. 863/2 He had a clump-foot.
clump-headed adj. (see quot.).
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1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 126 When the leading shoots of the stem begin to lose their preeminence, and gradually disappear among the other branches, the top of the Tree assumes a rounded form, and becomes what is called clump-headed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
clumpv.
/klʌmp/, U.S. /kləmp/ 1.
a. intransitive. To walk or tread heavily and clumsily. [This has associations with clump n. 4, or its Dutch sources. People clump with klumpen or wooden shoes.]
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > heavily
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stunt1901
stomp1919
1665 J. Bunyan Holy Citie in J. Brown Bunyan viii. 178 It is not every clown with his clumping dirty shoes that is admitted.
c1825 L. L. Cameron Houlston Tracts II. No. 54. 5 If I was to clump about the house in those clodhopping shoes.
1853 ‘C. Bede’ Adventures Mr. Verdant Green ix. 83 Clumping with his lame leg up and down the pavement.
1862 G. A. Sala Seven Sons Mammon I. ix. 214 He..clumped about in his sabots.
b. To move heavily or clumsily.
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1903 J. Conrad & F. M. Hueffer Romance iii. vi The clumping staff of my heavy crucifix drew hollow echoes from the flagstones.
c. transitive. To strike, punch, or beat. colloquial or dialect.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)] > specific animate object
drepeOE
smitec1200
buffet?c1225
strike1377
rapa1400
seta1400
frontc1400
ballc1450
throw1488
to bear (a person) a blow1530
fetch1556
douse1559
knetcha1564
slat1577
to hit any one a blow1597
wherret1599
alapate1609
shock1614
baske1642
measure1652
plump1785
jow1802
nobble1841
scuff1841
clump1864
bust1873
plonk1874
to sock it to1877
dot1881
biff1888
dong1889
slosh1890
to soak it to1892
to cop (a person) one1898
poke1906
to hang one on1908
bop1931
clonk1949
1864 Derby Day 52 I want to clump them. It will spoil sport to call in the bobbies.
1896 A. Morrison Child of Jago 162 Dicky ‘clumped’ Bobby Roper whenever he could get hold of him.
1903 Daily Chron. 10 Mar. 9/7 When I woke up I found my boy's hand in my pocket, and I clumped him, as a father should.
1924 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 145/1 [He] impartially..clumped the ears of each youth in turn.
2.
a. To put together into a ‘clump’, heap, or mass; to plant in a clump.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > sowing > sow seed [verb (transitive)] > sow in clumps
clump1824
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > cluster
cluster1398
clamberc1400
knot1611
constellate1643
galaxy1654
clump1824
satellize1887
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) I. 26 They are paid according to the quantity they plant: and some..used to be accused of clumping them—that is..of dropping more than one bean into a hole.
1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 423 Two or three [words] were crammed into one lot, clumped, as the bean-setters say.
1869 F. Parkman Discov. Great West v. 63 The women..wore their hair clumped in a mass behind each ear.
b. intransitive. To form a clump or clumps (clump n. 2d).
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > formation of substances, etc. > [verb (intransitive)]
secrete1872
clump1896
18961 [see clumping adj. and n. at Derivatives].
1903 Med. Rec. 28 Feb. 358/2 The Seal Harbor bacillus refused absolutely to clump in any dilution above 1—10.
3. To put a clump on the sole of a shoe, to add an extra thick sole: to ‘clog’.
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1891 N.E.D. at Clump Mod. To have the children's shoes clumped for the winter.
Derivatives
ˈclumping adj. and n.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > formation of substances, etc. > [noun]
elaboration1578
excretion1605
secrement1664
laboration1830
albuminization1843
vacuolation1858
vacuolization1882
glycogenesis1886
clumping1896
chemosynthesis1900
lysogenesis1901
melanogenesis1909
biosynthesis1918
lymphopoiesis1918
biogenesis1922
oncogenesis1932
induction1947
steroidogenesis1951
MAO1965
1896 Lancet 19 Dec. 1746/2 A new method of diagnosis of the fever by means of the clumping or agglutinative effect upon living typhoid bacilli.
1896 Lancet 19 Dec. 1747/1 Serums of immunised animals..have little or no clumping action.
1898 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Sept. 589/1 Agglutinating or sedimentary properties of serums..their power of causing clumping (agglutination).
1908 Practitioner June 838 ·1 per cent. saline solution, in which the organisms lose to a large extent their natural property of clumping.
1951 Sun (Baltimore) 31 May 3/4 When people recover from leprosy, their blood no longer causes clumping in the blood test.
1967 W. H. R. Lumsden in D. M. Weir Handbk. Exper. Immunol. xxvii. 895 Reactions varied from ‘pre-agglutination’, characterized by immobilization without clumping,..to occasional small aggregations.
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v.1665- to ride a short staypeak
- to ride a stress
- to ride a thing hard
- to ride a thing to death
- to ride a tiger
- to ride a-tilt
- to open or shut shopwindow
- to open or shut up one's shop-window
- to open or shut up one's shopwindow
- to open or shut up shop-window
- to open or shut up shopwindow
- to open out
- to open shop
- to open someone's mind
- to open the ball
- to open the etc window for
- to open the etc window to
- to open the fire
- to open the pot
- to open the scene of
- to open the shoulders
- to open the way
- to open up
- to open up a gap
- to open up a lead