clout
Meaning of clout
noun
- Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
- A blow with the hand.
- A home run.
- The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
- A swaddling cloth.
- A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
- An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
- A piece; a fragment.
- To hit, especially with the fist.
- To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
- To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
- To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
- To join or patch clumsily.
- To form a clot or mass.
- To cause to clot or form into a mass.
Information about clout
- The plural form of clout is: clouts.
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Hyphenation of clout
clout
- It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
- clout is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
clout synonyms
Meaning pull:
Meaning punch:
Translation of clout
- French: influence, marron, châtaigne, jeton
- German: Einfluss
- Spanish: influencia, puñetazo
- Italian: influenza, pugno, cazzotto
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Words that rhyme with clout
lout, alout, blout, beclout, breechclout, disclout, dishclout, unclout, belout, velout, beflout, flout, glout, bailout, callout, fallout, pullout, rollout, sellout, plout, underlout
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