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 short blow or gust.
To blow a short gust.
To waste time.
To waffle, talk aimlessly.
To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about.
To travel quickly with an accompanying wind-like sound; whizz, whistle along.
To disperse with, or as with, a whiff, or puff; to scatter.
To wave or shake quickly; to cause to whiffle.
To descend rapidly from a height once the decision to land has been made, involving fast side-slipping first one way and then the other.
To change from one opinion or course to another; to use evasions; to prevaricate; to be fickle.