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 beat or blow; the sound of beating.
thrash metal
To defeat utterly.
To extensively test a software system, giving a program various inputs and observing the behavior and outputs that result.
In computer architecture, to cause or undergo poor performance of a virtual memory (or paging) system.
To move about wildly or violently; to flail; to labour.
To beat mercilessly.
To thresh.