different between cladding vs clodding

English

From clad +? -ing. Compare clothing, ultimately from the same source.

cladding (countable and uncountable, plural claddings)

(rare) Clothing; clothes.
Any hard coating, bonded onto the outside of something to add protection, such as the plastic sheath around an optical fibre.
(construction) A weatherproof, insulating or decorative covering fixed to the outside of a building.
Synonym: (US) siding

cladding

clodding

clodding (plural cloddings)

The act of pelting somebody with clods.
- 1988, Dennis Smith, The County of Kincardine (page 63)
  Stone throwing and cloddings have much in common. The witches openly cast stones. The cloddings took place by the instrumentality of an unseen agent, usually supposed to be in league with Satan.

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