A blow with the hand.
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.
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 kick; a blow with the foot.
An act of spurning; a scornful rejection.
A body of coal left to sustain an overhanging mass.
To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity)
To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn.
To reject something by pushing it away with the foot.