clout vs pedicle

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. 

pedicle

noun
  • A fetter for the foot. 

  • The attachment point for antlers in cervids. 

  • Part of a skin or tissue graft temporarily left attached to its original site. 

  • peduncle (any sense) 

  • A stalk that attaches a tumour to normal tissue 

  • pedicel (any sense) 

  • A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate. 

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