clout

English

/klaʊt/, /klʌʊt/

noun
Definitions
  • Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
  • (regional) A blow with the hand.
  • (baseball) A home run.
  • (archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
  • (regional) A swaddling cloth.
  • (archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
  • (archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
  • (obsolete) A piece; a fragment.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English clout inherited from Old English clūt inherited from Proto-Germanic *klūtaz inherited from Proto-Indo-European *gelewdos, *gel- (cold, form into a ball, ball, gleam, ball up, freeze, be cold, amass, clench, round, swollen).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*gel-

Gloss

cold, form into a ball, ball, gleam, ball up, freeze, be cold, amass, clench, round, swollen

Concept
Semantic Field

Sense perception

Ontological Category

Person/Thing

Kanji

冷, 寒

Emoji
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