To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
To hit, especially with the fist.
To join or patch clumsily.
A clout nail.
The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
A home run.
A blow with the hand.
To disintegrate by the blades becoming severed from the axis
To defeat (someone) who then refuses to admit defeat.
The central cylindrical core of an ear of corn (maize) on which the kernels are attached in rows.