1 gen 1642 anni - clot

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Usually associated now with coagulated blood but formerly the word for hardened lumps of earth, a meaning now given to ‘clod’ which shares the same etymology. <i>c</i>.1560 <i>clense thy meds from clott and stone</i>, Woodsome (KayeCP); 1642 <i>sende them into the faugh feilde for two loades of clottes, thereon to make morter, which clottes wee throwe downe neare unto some water, providinge two or three men with clotting melles to breake them small</i>, Elmswell (DW144).

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