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 137 CloamerS. Boys' clay marbles. See ClayS. Clob. A lump of earth, or clay. Also Cob. Q-V. ; Coarse clay and straw mixed, for building a coh wall. Clobbed. Begrimed. Dirty clothes, or utensils are said to be " clobbed with dirt." Clobbed up. Choked, as thus of a man's pipe stem, " it is clobbed up." Clock. The crop, or maw. Clodgy. Sticky like pitch, or birdlime. Clop, or Cloppy. To walk lame, to limp along. Cloppy. Lame. In Celtic Cornish clo]p;pec and clof mean, lame, crippled. (Klo;ppek Borlase.) Clopper. One who halts, or limps in walking. " A blinker and a clopper were never caught in a good trick." A hard old saying. Clopping. Walking lame. ^^Clopping along." Close. Reticent, reserved. "He is always very close." douching. Without character, not to be believed. SL Buryan, Clout. A blow, a slap. "I'll giv'ee a clout under the ear." This is a Celtic Cornish word. Cluck, Clucky, Clucky down. To lower the body to a very stooping posture ; sitting on the heels and bending the neck very much, is a posture comparable to that of a barn door fowl, "clucking," i.e., sitting flat down with the head lowered. Lhuyd gives