[f. CLOD sb.: cf. the originally identical CLOT v.]
† 1. trans. To free (land) from clods by harrowing, rolling, or the like. Also absol. Obs.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., III. 28. Eke diligently clodde it [L. occa], pyke oute stones.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 83. Cloddyn or brekyn cloddes, occo.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Country Farme, 533. To clod it [arable ground] vvith a roller or board to couer it.
1743. R. Maxwell, Sel. Trans. Soc. Improv. Agric., 323 (Jam.). The Ground must be well harrowed, clodded, and cleaned from all Obstructions.
† 2. To cover with clods. Obs.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., XII. 8. Clodde hem [barley, beans, etc.] large, as wel thai may be wrie.
3. To form or turn into clods; formerly also to run into clots, to CLOT (sense 3). trans. and intr.
1530. Palsgr., 488/1. I clodde, I go in to heapes or in to peces, as the yerthe dothe, Je amoncelle.
1572. R. H., trans. Lauaterus’ Ghostes (1596), 207. Snowe clodded togither.
1639. T. de Grey, Compl. Horsem., 9. Keep the Vdder that the milke doe not clod.
1655. Gouge, Comm. Heb. ix. 19. II. 378. To keep the blood from clodding.
1741. Compl. Fam. Piece, I. vi. 278. As soon as you have well mixed it [malt] with the Liquor, and prevented it from clodding.
† 4. trans. To enclose in or as in clods. Obs.
1610. G. Fletcher, Christ’s Vict., in Farr, S. P. Jas. I. (1848), 36. That … man, might spend … Clodded in lumps of clay, his wearie life to end.
5. trans. To pelt with clods.
1755. in Johnson without quotation.
1888. Sc. Leader, 28 Nov., 7. The crowd of boys … kept stoning and clodding him for a considerable distance.
b. intr. To throw clods or stones.
1781. J. Hutton, Tour Caves, Clod, to throw stones.
1867. E. Waugh, Tattlin’ Matty, ii. in Lanc. Gloss., s.v. Clod, There’s a rook o’ chaps bin cloddin’ at it.
6. gen. To heave or throw heavily. north. dial.
1815. Scott, Guy M., xi. ‘She grippit him, and clodded him like a stane from the sling ower the craigs.’
1864. T. Clark, Westmorld. Dial., in Kendal Mercury, 30 Jan. He clodt doon his books an sed he cud meeak nowt omma.
1870. E. Peacock, Ralf Skirl., I. 187. He’s … clodded ’em into th’ carriage.
7. intr. To fish for eels with a clod; to bob.
1888. Eng. Illust. Mag., 380. I have sniggled … for eels. I have bobbed (or clodded) for them on a Dorsetshire river.
Hence Clodding vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
c. 1550. Lacy, Wyl Bucke’s Test., in Halliw., Lit. 16th & 17th C. (1851), 54. Clodding of the blode.
1552. Huloet, Cloddynge betyll or malle, occa.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Country Farme, 541. Where the woodden rowler will not serue, there you shall take clodding-beetles, made of purpose broad and flat, and with them breake the clods.
1816. Keatinge, Trav., II. 185. The cost of clodding and weeding.
