Clout
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (n.) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.

2. (n.) A swadding cloth.

3. (n.) A piece; a fragment.

4. (n.) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; -- probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.

5. (n.) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.

6. (n.) A blow with the hand.

7. (n.) To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout.

8. (n.) To join or patch clumsily.

9. (n.) To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.

10. (n.) To give a blow to; to strike.

11. (n.) To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
CLOUT

klout: As substantive (ha-cechabhoth) a patch or piece of cloth, leather, or the like, a rag, a shred, or fragment. Old "cast clouts and old rotten rags" (Jeremiah 38:11, 12 the King James Version). As verb (Tala') "to bandage," "patch," or mend with a clout. "Old shoes and clouted (the American Standard Revised Version "patched") upon their feet" (Joshua 9:5); compare Shakespeare, Cym., IV, 2: "I thought he slept, And put my clouted brogues from off my feet"; Milton, Comus: "And the dull swain treads on it daily with his clouted shoon."

Strong's Hebrew
5499. sechabah -- a rag
... Word Origin from sachab Definition a rag NASB Word Usage clothes (2). cast clout.
From cachab; a rag -- cast clout. see HEBREW cachab. 5498, 5499. ...
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Fear and Faith
... Do you think that you banish the danger for which the alarm bell is rung because
you wrap a clout round the clapper so as to prevent it from sounding? ...
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The Messenger
... A nobleman would not be thought a messenger. Thou dost incur less danger than the
clout-wearing runner for the temple.". A light broke over Kenkenes. ...
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Under Ban of the Ritual
... At the landing he engaged one of the numerous small boats awaiting a passenger,
and directed the clout-wearing boatman to drop down the stream. ...
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The Work of Jesus Christ as an Advocate,
The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3. <. ...
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The Holy War,
The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3. <. ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the holy war.htm

Thesaurus
Clout
... 6. (n.) A blow with the hand. 7. (n.) To cover with cloth, leather, or other
material; to bandage; patch, or mend, with a clout. ...CLOUT. ...
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Cloudy (6 Occurrences)

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Rag
... 11, 12 the American Standard Revised Version translates cechabhah, as "rag" (the
King James Version, the English Revised Version "old cast clout"), while the ...
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Clouted (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (imp. & pp) of Clout. Multi-Version Concordance
Clouted (1 Occurrence). Joshua 9:5 And old shoes and clouted ...
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