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Synonyms

  1. clout nail

Words Described by "Clout"

  1. nails
  2. shooting

Hypernyms (Type of)

  1. strike
  2. mark
  3. target
  4. nail

What Google Knows

In political science, power is the social production of an effect that determines the capacities, actions, beliefs, or conduct of actors.

Related Definition

  1. clout:

    n (informal) Influence or effectiveness, especially political.

    n (regional, informal) A blow with the hand.

    n (baseball, informal) A home run.

    n (archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.

    n (regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.

    n (archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.

    n (archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.

    n A clout nail.

    n (obsolete) A piece; a fragment.

    v To hit, especially with the fist.

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

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

    v To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.

    v To join or patch clumsily.

    v Dated form of clot. [(intransitive) To form a clot or mass.]


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