Crossword clues for clumps
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clumps \Clumps\, n. A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two ``clumps'' or groups, the ``clump'' which guesses the word winning the game.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of clump English) 2 A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups. vb. (en-third-person singular of: clump)
Usage examples of "clumps".
Rocks and bushes and clumps of raspberry vine that were familiar and friendly in the light of day soon became strange and forbidding night shapes, weirdly lit and twisted beneath the moon.
But then he noticed that the shore off to starboard seemed to be about a mile away and that the raft was rushing along amid occasional clumps of tree trunks.
Jonathan could now make out tousled clumps of trees roundabout him hoisting up out of the water like little clusters of vegetables clamped into an asparagus cooker.
From between two such clumps, about a hundred yards off his port bow, there appeared a weird but welcome sight.
The river was running swift and high and clumps of prickly bush and snag were growing out into the rush of water.
The rocky coast was peopled by little islets, many of them simply clumps of weedy rock beaten by the tides and wind, and many with lighthouses atop them.
Beyond the surfline, spotted seals sat about in clumps, one now and again sliding off into the water and disappearing, no doubt, in search of a passing fish.
The Professor was ashore, hacking at brush with a hand axe, and tossing particularly leafy clumps and branches back up onto the deck.
No clumps of weeds or slippery stone seemed too small for him to balance on.
Its unkempt fur stuck out in brown clumps on its sunken sides and hung in tufts from its lean haunches.
He looked round, and among the grey clumps of young pine-trees whose curly tops were swaying in the wind he saw several branches that seemed to be acting independently, they did not sway in unison with the rest.
For some reason, she recalled that in the anatomical museum she had seen a model of the face of a man who had suffered from lupus: a face scarred by bluish furrows and pimples, with irregular, corroded lips, eyebrows in small clumps, and red eyelids without eyelashes.
It was a cool, glistening patch in the shade of old weeping willows, and forcing a way through the clumps of weeds, preening and splashing themselves, swam a couple of snow-white, red-beaked geese.
East: the low buildings were out of sight in trees, behind the hummock, but she knew which clumps of trees to watch.
Scattered clumps of evergreens made gloomy shadows within the forest shade.