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.
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 pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of.
To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
An act of avoiding lessons or work.
An angled cut or bevel at the edge of something.
A rotating iron disk coated with oil and diamond dust used to polish the facets of a diamond.
Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty.