Middle English Dictionary Entry
clod n.
Entry Info
| Forms | clod n. Also clodde, cludde. |
| Etymology | OE clod(d) |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. clot.
1.
(a) A lump of earth or clay, a clod; in (under) cloddes, in (under) the earth; (b) a clot (of blood); (c) a cut of beef: the chuck.
Associated quotations
a
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)83 : Clodde [Win: clodd]: Gleba.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)2.17 : The cloddis malled be with mannes hond.
- (?1440) Palladius (DukeH d.2)12.12 : Cloddis wol ther [seeds'] germinacioun Odumbre from the coold.
- ?a1450 Add.Mir.Virg.(Add 39996)362/16 : At þe ymage he kest stones And many cloddes.
- c1475(c1450) Idley Instr.(Cmb Ee.4.37)2.B.163 : Eche man to be couered vndir cloddis with a spade.
- a1500 Amis (Dc 326)1530 : Cloddes [Auch: þe riche douke..grauen in grete so cold].
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)33b/b : Þe blood..renneþ & turneþ to cluddes [L coagulatur].
- ?c1425 *Chauliac(2) (Paris angl.25)67a/a : When the wounde is wel clensede of cludde of blode [*Ch.(1): cludderez or burblez; L trumbis].
c
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)30 : Alander de beeff..tak the clodde of beef and make lesks of a span longe.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)f.6vb (1.2) : Ryȝt as whei is..pressede oute fro þe mylke þrogh wirkyng and trauaylyng and þristyng out of þike matere, i. fro þe cloddres & þe clompres and þe cruddes, riȝt so þe vryn is pressede and wrongen and clensede out fro ..þe clode and clompre of blode.
Note: Additional quot., sense (b). New spelling: clode.
- ?c1400(1379) Daniel *Treat.Uroscopy (Roy 17.D.1)[ref here] : Þe secunde condicioun..of 'ypostasis' is..þat þe body of him be continual & equal, i. þat it be holdand togedre, and oueral alike hole and noȝt tobroken, here a clod & ȝond anoþer.
Note: ?Modify sense (a). Editor's gloss: 'clot, lump'