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If a horse clops, its hooves hit the ground with a clear, repeating sound — clop, clop, clop. You hear it on a hard road more than in a soft field. The noun is that sound. It is a sound-word; writers use it to put a horse in a scene without drawing the whole picture. Everyday talk uses it less, unless people are actually talking about horses. The home of the word is hooves. People sometimes stretch it to any similar beat, but that is a stretch.
馬蹄聲（噠噠）
組成A sound-word for hooves. This probably comes from German or Dutch kloppen ('to hit, knock'), from Middle Dutch cloppen ('to make a clopping sound'), itself from the sound. See also clap.
同家族的字
- clapanother hitting-sound word; dictionaries group them together
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
clopnoun詞源 1/klɒp/
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The sound of a horse's shod hoof striking the ground.
- Holonym: clip-clop
clopverb詞源 1/klɒp/
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To make this sound; to walk so as to make this sound.
- Robert Loo sat and listened behind his counter, his heart aching, his eyes staring at nothing, while his brothers cheerfully clopped around, occasionally calling to the kitchen, as customers drifted somnambulistically in.
clopnoun詞源 2
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A traditional Romanian small straw hat.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。