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 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.
Being or kept hidden.
To make or keep secret.
To hide secretly.
Private seclusion.
A piece of knowledge that is hidden and intended to be kept hidden.
The key or principle by which something is made clear; the knack.
A form of steel skullcap.
Something not understood or known.
Any prayer spoken inaudibly and not aloud; especially, one of the prayers in the Tridentine Mass, immediately following the "orate, fratres", said inaudibly by the celebrant.