ppl. a. [f. CLOD v. + -ED1.] Stuck together in clods or lumps. Formerly also = Clotted, coagulated.

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1562.  Phaër, Æneid, VIII. Y iiij b. Stormful clouds of clodded rayne.

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1565.  Golding, Ovid’s Met., I. Severd from the blind And clodded heape.

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1594.  T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., II. 354. Is … like to blood newly pressed out and clodded.

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1688.  H. Wharton, Enthus. Ch. Rome, 82. His Hair clodded and uncombed.

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1725.  Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Musk, Clodded Blood … found under the Skin of the Animal when it is flead.

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1812.  Morning Chron., 1 May, 3/2. Parched and clodded surface [of land], the consequence of some week’s drought.

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1818.  Keats, Endym., I. 297. This dull and clodded earth.

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  b.  Having a clod adhering.

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1800.  Hurdis, Fav. Village, 158. The ploughman’s clodded heel.

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