Clod vs Dill - What's the difference?
clod | dill | Synonyms |
A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
* Milton
* E. Fairfax
* Francis Bacon
* T. Burnet
* 2010 ,
The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
* Jonathan Swift
A stupid person; a dolt.
Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.
To pelt with clods.
(Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.
To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.
* G. Fletcher
Anethum graveolens (the sole species of the genus ), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed.
A cucumber pickled with dill flavoring, also called a dill pickle.
(informal) a fool.
As nouns the difference between clod and dill
is that clod is a lump of something, especially of earth or clay while dill is Anethum graveolens (the sole species of the genus genus: Anethum), a herb, the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; also known as dillseed.As verbs the difference between clod and dill
is that clod is to pelt with clods while dill is to still; to assuage; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.clod
English
Noun
(en noun)- clods of iron and brass
- clods of blood
- The earth that casteth up from the plough a great clod', is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller ' clod .
- this cold clod of clay which we carry about with us
- "What a bunch of hooey," I said under my breath, tossing a dirt clod over my shoulder against the locked-up garden shed.
- the clod where once their sultan's horse has trod
- (Dryden)
Verb
(clodd)- (Jonson)
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- clodded gore
- Clodded in lumps of clay.
