ˈclod-poll, clod-pole
[f. clod + poll head.]
= clod-pate.
| 1601 Shakes. Twel. N. iii. iv. 208 This Letter being so excellently ignorant..he will finde it comes from a Clodde-pole. c 1817 Hogg Tales & Sk. IV. 66 He thought the story..too ridiculous for any clodpole to have contrived. 1840 Thackeray Catherine i, A poor clodpole, like Tom there. 1878 Browning Poets Croisic 83 Our Academic clodpoles must be dense. |