Meaning

noun a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired

noun water soaked soil; soft wet earth

noun the dead body of a human being

originFrom Middle English cley, clay, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz (“clay”), derived from Proto-Indo-European *gleyH- (“to glue, paste, stick…

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