Entry 5 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Clump

/(klŭmp)/ · IPA /klʌmp/

01 n. An unshaped piece or mass of wood or other substance.

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.

02 v. t. To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group.

1.
To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group.

03 v. i. To tread clumsily; to clamp.

1.
To tread clumsily; to clamp.[Prov. Eng.]