Definition of "clodhopper"

...who had got on his "hill shoes," as he calls a pair of clodhoppers as thick as a ploughman's, and stuck round with nails.

1830, Margaret Hundy, “First Epistle from Mrs. Margaret Hundy”, in The Lady's Magazine

We had to walk slow because of his wooden clod-hoppers, and that was the way I wanted it now

1959, Claude F. Koch, A Matter of Family

Smiling Jim Mead of New York tries on his GI clodhopper boots. He decided to return them "because we couldn't make any altitude with those aboard."

1943 August 16, “Senators go global: Five will fly to all fronts”, in LIFE Magazine

[…] now a book is no greater rarity than bacon and greens in Virginia; and the clodhopper of this country returns from his daily labours to a book […]

1719, René Le Bossu, translated by Pierre François le Courayer and Peter Anthony Motteux, Monsieur Bossu's Treatise of the Epick Poem, J. Knapton and H. Clements, page 332

'Nephew Jack,' he cried, looking at me when I was thinking what to say, and finding only emptiness, 'you are a heavy lout, sir; a bumpkin, a clodhopper; and I shall leave you nothing, unless it be my boots to grease.'

1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, “ch. 14”, in Lorna Doone

All guess-work exploits shrivel up a good yard, or sometimes two, when brought to the measure, and the champion of the county dwindles into a clumsy clod-hopper.

1826 August, P.H. Clias, “Gymnastics”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume XX, number CXV

...and as the birds then begin to resort to the downs and open commons, the "fallow-chat," "wheat-ear," and "clodhopper," are not unappropriate names.

1834, Robert Mudie, The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands, volume 1