Definition of "clump"

clump

/klʌmp/

noun
plural clumps
1. A cluster or lump; an unshaped piece or mass.
2. A thick group or bunch, especially of bushes or hair.
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  clump of trees
  1954, Lucian Hobart Ryland (translator), Adelaide of Brunswick (originally by Marquis de Sade)
3. A dull thud.
  Quotations
  She [Miss Climpson] asks questions which a young man could not put without a blush. She is the angel that rushes in where fools get a clump on the head.
  1927, Dorothy L. Sayers, Unnatural Death
  Thus, the myths of cinema and syndicated cartoon have served to unite the diverse races far more than the clump of the cricket-ball and the clipped rebukes and laudations of their masters.
  1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 37
4. The compressed clay of coal strata.
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  clump-burned bricks
  1837, The Magazine of Domestic Economy
5. A small group of trees or plants.
6. (historical) A thick addition to the sole of a shoe.
verb
third-person singular simple present clumps, present participle clumping, simple past and past participle clumped
1. (transitive, intransitive) To form clusters or lumps.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To gather in dense groups.
3. (intransitive) To walk with heavy footfalls.
4. (transitive, UK, regional) To strike; to beat.
  Quotations
  There is his poor little cap hanging up on the door; and there on the table is the knife he chipped a piece out of through not minding the mark on the knife machine, and I clumped his head for him, poor lamb!
  1912, Mrs. Coulson Kernahan, The Go-Between, page 79

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