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clout
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kla?t/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /kl??t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English clout, from Old English cl?t, from Proto-Germanic *kl?taz, from Proto-Indo-European *gelewdos, from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to ball up, amass”). Cognate with Old Norse klútr (“kerchief”), Swedish klut, Danish klud, Middle High German kl?z (“lump”), whence German Kloß, and dialect Russian ????? (gluda). See also cleat. The sense “influence, especially political” originated in the dialect of Chicago, but has become widespread.
Noun
clout (countable and uncountable, plural clouts)
- Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
- (regional, informal) A blow with the hand.
- 1910, Katherine Mansfield, Frau Brenchenmacher Attends A Wedding
- ‘Such a clout on the ear as you gave me… But I soon taught you.’
- 1910, Katherine Mansfield, Frau Brenchenmacher Attends A Wedding
- (baseball, informal) A home run.
- 2011, Michael Vega, "Triple double", in The Boston Globe, August 17, 2011, p. C1.
- '... allowed Boston to score all of its runs on homers, including a pair of clouts by Jacoby Ellsbury ...'
- 2011, Michael Vega, "Triple double", in The Boston Globe, August 17, 2011, p. C1.
- (archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
- c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV, Scene 1,[4]
- A’ must shoot nearer or he’ll ne’er hit the clout.
- c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost, Act IV, Scene 1,[4]
- (regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.
- (archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 9, p. 129,[5]
- His garment nought but many ragged clouts, / With thornes together pind and patched was, / The which his naked sides he wrapt abouts;
- c. 1600 William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene 2,[6]
- […] a clout upon that head
- Where late the diadem stood […]
- 1743, Robert Drury, The Pleasant, and Surprizing Adventures of Mr. Robert Drury, during his Fifteen Years Captivity on the Island of Madagascar, London, p. 74,[7]
- We condol’d with each other, and observ’d how wretchedly we look’d, all naked, except a small Clout about our Middles […]
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, Canto 9, p. 129,[5]
- (archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
- (obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
- c. 1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, “The Merchant’s Tale,” lines 707-709, in The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, London: Bell & Daldy, 1866, Volume 2, p. 339,[8]
- And whan sche of this bille hath taken heede, / Sche rente it al to cloutes atte laste / And into the privy softely it caste.
- c. 1390s, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, “The Merchant’s Tale,” lines 707-709, in The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, London: Bell & Daldy, 1866, Volume 2, p. 339,[8]
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
clout (third-person singular simple present clouts, present participle clouting, simple past and past participle clouted)
- To hit, especially with the fist.
- To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
- 15 March, 1549, Hugh Latimer, The Second Sermon preached before the King's Majesty at Westminster
- Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in […] clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers.
- 15 March, 1549, Hugh Latimer, The Second Sermon preached before the King's Majesty at Westminster
- To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
- To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
- To join or patch clumsily.
Translations
Etymology 2
Verb
clout (third-person singular simple present clouts, present participle clouting, simple past and past participle clouted)
- Dated form of clot.
- 1948, The Essex Review
- He tells us how to butter eggs, boil eels, clout cream, stew capons, how to make a fine cake, an almond pudding and a raspberry conserve, […]
- 1948, The Essex Review
References
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English cl?t, from Proto-West Germanic *kl?t, from Proto-Germanic *kl?taz. Compare cloud.
Alternative forms
- clowt, cloute, clowte, clowtt
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klu?t/
Noun
clout (plural cloutes)
- A (smaller) piece of fabric; a shred:
- A patch (fabric for mending).
- A bandage or dressing (for wounds)
- rag, tatter (piece of clothing)
- A (larger) piece of fabric; a cloth:
- Threadbare or inferior clothing.
- Cloth for wrapping babies; swaddling clothes.
- A burial shroud.
- A washer; a round metal panel.
- A fragment or shred.
- A strike, blow or hit.
Related terms
- clouten
- clouting
- clowter
Descendants
- English: clout
- Scots: clout, cloot
References
- “cl?ut, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “cl?ut, n.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Verb
clout
- Alternative form of clouten
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flail
English
Etymology
From Middle English flaile, flayle, from earlier fleil, fleyl, fle??l, flegl, from Old English fligel, *flegel (“flail”), from Proto-Germanic *flagilaz (“flail, whip”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps related to Old French fil and Latin f?lum ("a fine thread or wire, a filament", i.e. a defiling instrument for the thrashing of a wire). Cognate with Scots flail (“a thresher's flail”), West Frisian fleil, flaaiel (“flail”), Dutch vlegel (“flail”), Low German vlegel (“flail”), German Flegel (“flail”). Possibly a native Germanic word from Proto-Germanic *flag-, *flah- (“to whip, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?k- (“to beat, hit, strike; weep”); compare Lithuanian plàkti (“to whip, lash, flog”), Ancient Greek ????????? (pl?gnúnai, “strike, hit, encounter”), Latin plang? (“lament”, i.e. “beat one's breast”) + Proto-Germanic *-ilaz (instrumental suffix); or a borrowing of Latin flagellum, diminutive of flagrum (“scourge, whip”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?lag-, *b?la?- (“to beat”); compare Old Norse blekkja (“to beat, mistreat”). Compare also Old French flael (“flail”), Walloon flayea (“flail”) (locally pronounced "flai"), Italian flagello (“scourge, whip, plague”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fle?l/
- Rhymes: -e?l
Noun
flail (plural flails)
- A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle with a shorter stick attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.
- A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
Synonyms
- threshel, thrashel
Quotations
- 1631 — John Milton, L'Allegro
- When in one night, ere glimpse of morn,
His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn
That ten day-labourers could not end;
- When in one night, ere glimpse of morn,
- 1816 — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan
- Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail
- Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
- 1842 — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Slave in the Dismal Swamp
- On him alone the curse of Cain
Fell, like a flail on the garnered grain,
And struck him to the earth!
- On him alone the curse of Cain
- 1879 — Henry George, Progress and Poverty, ch V
- If the farmer must use the spade because he has not capital enough for a plough, the sickle instead of the reaping machine, the flail instead of the thresher...
Translations
Coordinate terms
- (weapon): nunchaku
Verb
flail (third-person singular simple present flails, present participle flailing, simple past and past participle flailed)
- (transitive) To beat using a flail or similar implement.
- (transitive) To wave or swing vigorously
- Synonym: thrash
- 1937, H. P. Lovecraft, The Evil Clergyman
- He stopped in his tracks – then, flailing his arms wildly in the air, began to stagger backwards.
- (transitive) To thresh.
- (intransitive) To move like a flail.
Translations
See also
- flail on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Flail in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
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