clout

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Influence or effectiveness, especially political.

   “Having relinquished his clout in City Council to run for a place on the county board, and having lost stature by reason of his failure to win the presidency, Duffy was in no position to seek the party chairmanship for himself”

2. isim A blow with the hand.

   “‘Such a clout on the ear as you gave me… But I soon taught you.’”

3. isim A home run.

   “'... allowed Boston to score all of its runs on homers, including a pair of clouts by Jacoby Ellsbury ...'”

4. isim The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.

   “For kings are clouts that euery man ſhoots at, Our Crowne the pin that thouſands ſeeke to cleaue.”

5. isim A swaddling cloth.

   “When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg’s ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two.”

6. isim A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.

   “His garment nought but many ragged clouts, / With thornes together pind and patched was, / The which his naked sides he wrapt abouts;”

7. isim An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.

   “Clouts were thin and flat pieces of iron, used it appears to strengthen the box of the wheel; perhaps also for nailing on such other parts of the cart as were particularly exposed to wear.”

8. isim A clout nail.
9. isim A piece; a fragment.
10. fiil To hit (someone or something), especially with the fist.

    “The wolde ſome mayſter perhappes clowt ye / But as for me ye nede nat doute ye / For I had leuer be without ye / Then haue ſuche beſyneſſe aboute ye.”

11. fiil To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.

    “Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in mending an old net, and in clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers what diligence they should use in the expedition of matters.”

12. fiil To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
13. fiil To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
14. fiil To join or patch clumsily.

    “if fond Bavius vent his clouted song”

15. fiil Dated form of clot.

    “He tells us how to butter eggs, boil eels, clout cream, stew capons, how to make a fine cake, an almond pudding and a raspberry conserve, […]”