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clodhopper

 (n): a thick and heavy shoe
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about 13 hours ago yarb said:

There were collected eight or ten clodhoppers, all friends and neighbours, assembled on the green for the purpose of honouring my arrival...

- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 10 ch. 3

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