clout vs hub

clout

noun
  • 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. 

verb
  • 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 guard with an iron plate, as an axletree. 

  • To hit, especially with the fist. 

  • To join or patch clumsily. 

hub

noun
  • A stake with a nail in it, used to mark a temporary point. 

  • A rough protuberance or projecting obstruction. 

  • A point where many routes meet and traffic is distributed, dispensed, or diverted. 

  • A goal or mark at which quoits, etc., are thrown. 

  • A computer networking device connecting several Ethernet ports. See switch. 

  • The central part, usually cylindrical, of a wheel; the nave. 

  • A central facility providing a range of related services, such as a medical hub or an educational hub. 

  • A hardened, engraved steel punch for impressing a device upon a die, used in coining, etc. 

  • A screw hob. 

  • A block for scotching a wheel. 

  • An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed. 

  • A male weasel; a buck; a dog; a jack. 

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