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.]