Word Meanings - CLOUT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag. His garments, nought but many ragged clouts, With thorns together pinned and patched was. Spenser. A clout upon that head where late the diadem stood. Shak. 2. A swadding cloth. 3. A piece;

Additional info about word: CLOUT

1. A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag. His garments, nought but many ragged clouts, With thorns together pinned and patched was. Spenser. A clout upon that head where late the diadem stood. Shak. 2. A swadding cloth. 3. A piece; a fragment. Chaucer. 4. The center of the butt at which archers shoot; -- probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head. A'must shoot nearer or he'll ne'er hit the clout. Shak. 5. An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer. 6. A blow with the hand. Clout nail, a kind of wrought-iron nail heaving a large flat head; -- used for fastening clouts to axletrees, plowshares, etc., also for studding timber, and for various purposes.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CLOUT)

• Cobble
• Patch
• botch
• bungle
• clout
• Botch
• cobble
• piece

Related words: (words related to CLOUT)

• BOTCH
  1. A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton. 2. A patch put on, or a part of a garment patched or mended in a clumsy manner. 3. Work done in a bungling
• BUNGLER
  A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.
• BOTCHERY
  A botching, or that which is done by botching; clumsy or careless workmanship.
• COBBLER
  1. A mender of shoes. Addison. 2. A clumsy workman. Shak. 3. A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry. Cobbler fish , a marine fish of the Atlantic. The name alludes to its threadlike fin rays.
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• COBBLE
  A fishing boat. See Coble.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• BOTCHERLY
  Bungling; awkward.
• BOTCHER
  A young salmon; a grilse. (more info) 1. One who mends or patches, esp. a tailor or cobbler. Shak. 2. A clumsy or careless workman; a bungler.
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• CLOUT
  1. A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag. His garments, nought but many ragged clouts, With thorns together pinned and patched was. Spenser. A clout upon that head where late the diadem stood. Shak. 2. A swadding cloth. 3. A piece;
• CLOUTERLY
  Clumsy; awkward. Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips.
• PATCHINGLY
  Knavishy; deceitfully.
• PIECELESS
  Not made of pieces; whole; entire.
• PATCHY
  Full of, or covered with, patches; abounding in patches.
• PATCHERY
  Botchery; covering of defects; bungling; hypocrisy. Shak.
• BOTCHEDLY
  In a clumsy manner.
• PATCHOULI; PATCHOULY
  A mintlike plant of the East Indies, yielding an essential oil from which a highly valued perfume is made. 2. The perfume made from this plant. Patchouly camphor , a substance homologous with and resembling borneol, found in patchouly oil.
• PIECELY
  In pieces; piecemeal.
• BUNGLE
  To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• PINPATCH
  The common English periwinkle.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• DISPATCHMENT
  The act of dispatching. State Trials .
• FIELDPIECE
  A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
• BACKPIECE; BACKPLATE
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.
• TIMEPIECE
  A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
• DISCLOUT
  To divest of a clout.
• CHIMNEY-PIECE
  A decorative construction around the opning of a fireplace.