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▸ noun: (regional, informal) A blow with the hand.
▸ noun: (baseball, informal) A home run.
▸ noun: (archery) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
▸ noun: (regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.
▸ noun: (archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
▸ noun: (archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
▸ noun: A clout nail.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
▸ verb: To hit (someone or something), especially with the fist.
▸ verb: To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
▸ verb: To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
▸ verb: To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
▸ verb: To join or patch clumsily.
▸ verb: Dated form of clot. [(intransitive) To form a clot or mass.]
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clout nail,
clout list,
oomph,
weight,
influence,
might,
impact,
influential,
big shot,
power,
more...
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political,
economic,
more,
considerable,
enough,
financial,
breech,
little,
sufficient,
greater,
real
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