[f. CLOD + POLL head.] = CLOD-PATE.

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1601.  Shaks., Twel. N., III. iv. 208. This Letter being so excellently ignorant … he will finde it comes from a Cloddepole.

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c. 1817.  Hogg, Tales & Sk., IV. 66. He thought the story … too ridiculous for any clodpole to have contrived.

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1840.  Thackeray, Catherine, i. A poor clodpole, like Tom there.

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1878.  Browning, Poets Croisic, 83. Our Academic clodpoles must be dense.

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