Clayname/kleɪ/

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  A surname originating as an occupation.

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  A male given name transferred from the surname.

  • When he was about five years old some kids asked Clay why his mother had called him that. And he did not know. But began to wonder.
  • The lone "nay" came from the Republican lawmaker from Louisiana, Clay Higgins, who defied his party saying his vote was a principled "NO".
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  A diminutive of the male given name Clayton.

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claynoun/kleɪ/

• 1

  A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.

  • Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local color) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […]
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  An earth material with ductile qualities.

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  hobbieslifestylesportsA tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.

  • The French Open is played on clay.
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  biblicallifestylereligionThe material of the human body.

  • From clay we are made.
  • Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...thou hast made me as the clay.
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  geographygeologynatural-sciencesA particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.

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  A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.

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  informalengineeringfirearmsgovernmentA clay pigeon.

  • We went shooting clays at the weekend.
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  Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims.

  • Vilnius is rightful Polish clay.

clayverb/kleɪ/

• 1

  To add clay to, to spread clay onto.

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  To purify using clay.

  • 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 7: Of Colonies, Part 2: Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies, They amounted, therefore, to a prohibition, at first of claying or refining sugar for any foreign market, and at present of claying or refining it for the market, which takes off, perhaps, more than nine-tenths of the whole produce.
  • The Portuguese had mastered the technique of claying sugar, and other European nations tried to learn the secrets from them.

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• Clay County