Definition of "clod"

clods of iron and brass

1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873,

clods of blood

1600, Edward Fairfax (translator), originally published in 1581 by Torquato Tasso, w:Jerusalem Delivered

The earth that casteth up from the plough a great clod, is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller clod.

1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […]

As for yon clod of clay, we will bury it later, lest it should pollute so goodly a pool.

1903, Warwick Deeping, Uther and Igraine

One of the clods took it back of the ear, and it used language. It gave me a thrill, for it was the first time I had ever heard speech, except my own.

1906, Mark Twain, Eve's Diary

"What a bunch of hooey," I said under my breath, tossing a dirt clod over my shoulder against the locked-up garden shed.

2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest

the clod where once their sultan's horse hath trod

1723, Jonathan Swift, Pethox the Great

The vulgar, a scarce animated clod

1675, John Dryden, Aureng-zebe: A Tragedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry Herringman, […], published 1676, Act I, page 3

'What was its number?''I don't know, sir.''You clod! Why didn't you call one of our men, whoever was nearest, and leave him to shadow the American while you followed the cab?'

1906, Robert Barr, The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont

So here's a valentine for you, you insensitive clod!!

1986 February 14, Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

Gerald Broflovski: You see Kyle, we humans work as a society, and in order for a society to thrive, we need gods and clods.

1998, Chickenpox (episode of South Park TV series)

Peridot: Don't touch that! You clods don't know what you're doing!

2015, "Jail Break" (episode of Steven Universe TV series)

"When I went there yesterday evening in the gloaming it had crept down and was trying to catch the little speckled fishes that play in the pool, and I had to clod it to make it go up the tree again and let them alone."

1906, Mark Twain, Eve's Diary

when I came out and started to hoist it to the mule's back they rushed at me and jerked my suspenders down and then they clodded me with chunks of dirt

1959, Louis L'Amour, The First Fast Draw

"So, sir, she grippit him, and clodded him like a stane from the sling ower the craigs of Warroch-head"

1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […]

Clodded in lumps of clay.

1610, Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victorie and Triumph