Clumps
[klʌmps]
Definition
(n.) A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two "clumps" or groups, the "clump" which guesses the word winning the game.
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Examples
- Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-colored sea. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Behind one of these clumps I took up my position, so as to command both the gateway of the Hall and a long stretch of the road upon either side. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I was on some sort of a heathy common mottled over with dark clumps of furze-bushes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Tall clumps of flowering plants were grouped against a background of dark foliage in the angles of the walls. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
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