cloutnoun詞源 1/klaʊt/

• 1

  informalInfluence or effectiveness, especially political.

  • Having relinquished his clout in City Council to run for a place on the county board, and having lost stature by reason of his failure to win the presidency, Duffy was in no position to seek the party chairmanship for himself
  • […]ethics officers themselves often complain that they can recommend but have little clout with which to create real change.
• 2

  A blow with the hand.

  • ‘Such a clout on the ear as you gave me… But I soon taught you.’
  • One of her goons gave him a clout on the ear.
• 3

  informalball-gamesbaseballgamesA home run.

  • '... allowed Boston to score all of its runs on homers, including a pair of clouts by Jacoby Ellsbury ...'
• 4

  archerygovernmenthobbiesThe center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.

  • For kings are clouts that euery man ſhoots at, Our Crowne the pin that thouſands ſeeke to cleaue.
  • A’ must shoot nearer or he’ll ne’er hit the clout.
• 5

  datedregionalA swaddling cloth, nappy, or loincloth.

  • When a new-hatched savage running wild about his native woodlands in a grass clout, followed by the nibbling goats, as if he were a green sapling; even then, in Queequeg’s ambitious soul, lurked a strong desire to see something more of Christendom than a specimen whaler or two.
  • If we find clean water and clean towels we leave them money, either in their basins, or in their shoes; but if we find no clean water in their houses, we wash our children in their pottage, milk, or beer, or whatever we find: for the sluts that have not such things fitting, we wash their faces and hands with a gilded child's clout, or else carry them to some river and duck them over head and ears.
• 6

  archaicA cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.

  • His garment nought but many ragged clouts, / With thornes together pind and patched was, / The which his naked sides he wrapt abouts;
  • If I were mad, I ſhould forget my ſonne, / or madly thinke a babe of clowts were he; I am not mad: too well, too well I feele / The different plague of each clamitie.
• 7

  archaicAn iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.

  • Clouts were thin and flat pieces of iron, used it appears to strengthen the box of the wheel; perhaps also for nailing on such other parts of the cart as were particularly exposed to wear.
• 8

  A clout nail.

cloutverb詞源 1/klaʊt/

• 1

  To hit (someone or something), especially with the fist.

  • The wolde ſome mayſter perhappes clowt ye / But as for me ye nede nat doute ye / For I had leuer be without ye / Then haue ſuche beſyneſſe aboute ye.
  • A wizard? Him? How could he possibly be? He'd spent his life being clouted by Dudley, and bullied by Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon; if he was really a wizard, why hadn't they been turned into warty toads every time they'd tried to lock him in his cupboard?
• 2

  To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.

  • Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in mending an old net, and in clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers what diligence they should use in the expedition of matters.
  • There was a cobbler clowting shoon, / When they were mended, they were done.
• 3

  To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.

• 4

  To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.

• 5

  To join or patch clumsily.

  • if fond Bavius vent his clouted song

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• clot