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FromMiddle Englishclompe, fromOld Englishclymppe, a variant ofclympre(“a lump or mass of metal”), fromProto-Germanic*klumpô(“mass, lump, clump; clasp”), fromProto-Indo-European*glembʰ-(“lump, clamp”).Alternatively, possibly fromMiddle Dutchclompe orMiddle Low Germanklumpe^[1] (compareGermanKlumpen).Doublet ofklomp. Cognates includeDanishklump (probably from Low German as well^[2]). CompareNorwegian Bokmålklump.

clump (pluralclumps)

Acluster orlump; an unshaped piece or mass.
Athickgroup orbunch, especially ofbushes or hair.
- 1954,Lucian Hobart Ryland (translator),Adelaide of Brunswick (originally by Marquis de Sade)
  clump of trees
Adullthud.
- 1927,Dorothy L. Sayers,Unnatural Death:
  She [Miss Climpson] asks questions which a young man could not put without a blush. She is the angel that rushes in where fools get aclump on the head.
- 1956,Anthony Burgess,Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published1972, page37:
  Thus, the myths of cinema and syndicated cartoon have served to unite the diverse races far more than theclump of the cricket-ball and the clipped rebukes and laudations of their masters.
Thecompressedclay ofcoalstrata.
- 1837,The Magazine of Domestic Economy:
  clump-burned bricks
A small group of trees or plants.
(historical) Athick addition to thesole of ashoe.

cluster

thick group

dull thud

a small group of trees or plants

clump (third-person singular simple presentclumps,present participleclumping,simple past and past participleclumped)

(ambitransitive) To form clusters or lumps.
(ambitransitive) Togather in dense groups.
(intransitive) Towalk with heavyfootfalls.
(transitive, UK, regional) Tostrike; tobeat.
- 1912, Mrs. Coulson Kernahan,The Go-Between, page79:
  There is his poor little cap hanging up on the door; and there on the table is the knife he chipped a piece out of through not minding the mark on the knife machine, and Iclumped his head for him, poor lamb!