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clumpet
[< clump, clumper a shapeless mass, a lump]
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n.
one of the large chunks of ice formed during break-up.
See: clamper
Quotations
1835
I came out at Bay de l'Argent, by three P.M. down a rapid brook, which had a fall of water in it, and marks of a recent freshet in immense "clumpets" of ice, a yard and a half thick, which had been carried a hundred yards into the woods on each side.