clot

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English

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From Middle English clot, clotte, from Old English clott, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (lump). Cognate with German Klotz (block). Doublet of klutz.

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clot (plural clots)

  1. A thrombus, solidified mass of blood.
  2. A solidified mass of any liquid.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. [], London: [] William Rawley []; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee [], →OCLC:
      Doth bake the egg into clots as if it began to poach.
  3. A silly person.

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clot (third-person singular simple present clots, present participle clotting, simple past and past participle clotted)

  1. (intransitive) To form a clot or mass.
    • 2023 January 5, Amber Smith, “30 Health Benefits of Turmeric”, in Discover Magazine[1], archived from the original on 5 January 2023:
      When there is a wounded area on the body, the natural response is for platelets in the blood to clot to plug the wound.
  2. (transitive) To cause to clot or form into a mass.

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Uncertain, perhaps Indo-European but from a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia.

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clot m (plural clots)

  1. pit, hole
  2. dip (a lower section of a road or geological feature)

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Middle English

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From Old English clot, clott, from Proto-West Germanic *klott; compare clod.

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clot (plural clottes)

  1. A clod; a ball of earth or clay.
  2. The ground; the earth's surface.
  3. (figurative) The body.
  4. (rare) A chunk of turf or soil.

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  • English: clot

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