clop, clippety-clop, clip-clop, clopping, clunking, clumping
(noun) the sound of a horse’s hoofs hitting on a hard surface
Source: WordNet® 3.1
clumping
present participle of clump
clumping (plural clumpings)
A clump or cluster.
The sound of walking with heavy footfalls.
Source: Wiktionary
Clump, n. Etym: [Cf. D. klomp lump, G. klump, klumpen, Dan. klump, Sw. kllimp; perh. akin to L. globus, E. globe. Cf. Club.]
1. An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.
2. A cluster; a group; a thicket. A clump of shrubby trees. Hawthorne.
3. The compressed clay of coal strata. Brande & C.
Clump, v. t.
Definition: To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group. Blackmore.
Clump, v. i.
Definition: To tread clumsily; to clamp. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
9 June 2025
(noun) one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
