What is "clods"

Usage examples of "clods".

Falconer used his sword to hack at the turf, loosening clods which Tirtha broke away and piled to one side.

Sometimes, working over the clods in the fields, he would fall to pondering about her.

Then there were the fields to plant for winter wheat again, and when he had yoked the ox and ploughed the land the woman followed behind with her hoe and broke the clods in the furrows.

She helped repile the clods of turf, then brought stones from the brook edge to add cover.

The centaur stopped abruptly, kicking up clods from the field with his large hooves.

The downpour had already loosened the topsoil enough that the horses kicked up clods of muddy earth with each step.

Stones and massive clods of earth were ripped wholesale from the ground and swirled higher into the funnel.

Both fingers and toes ended in great hooked claws, in some of which clods of earth still clung.

Then I was being carried through a passage so narrow that at times my body brushed walls on both sides, continually bringing a rain of dust and clods down upon me.

A rivulet descends through ferrous clods of mud, arrayed down strips of descending field.

Indian clods are now-a sun-baked salt pan, scraps of history littering the expanse.

When did I ever sleep out in a field near Fresno, happy as a lamb with my head on a cluster of dirt clods still warm from the day?