Obs. exc. dial. [app. identical with OE. clympre ‘lump, mass of metal’:—type *klumpriôn- f. an adj. klump-ro- clumpish, deriv. of klumpo-: see CLUMP sb. Later form assimilated to clump, but cf. CLUTCH:—OE. clyccean.]

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  A lump, mass; = CLUMP sb. 1.

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a. 1000.  Riddles, xli. 75. Unlytel leades clympre.

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c. 1000.  Sax. Leechd., III. 134. Wyrc … greate clympran feowur.

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c. 1000.  O. E. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 272/29. Metallum clympre.

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1673.  Phil. Trans., VIII. 5194. Froze into little irregular clumpers.

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1731.  Bailey, Clumper, a clot or clod.

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1886.  Barnes, Dorset Gloss., ‘A clumper of gingerbread.’

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