clay

Meaning

1. A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
2. An earth material with ductile qualities.
3. A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
4. The material of the human body.
5. A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
6. A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
7. (informal) A clay pigeon.
8. Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims.
9. A moth, Mythimna ferrago

clay

mud

earth

loam

soil

cadaver

stiff

corpse

remains

argil

dirt

earthen

body

dead body

mire

carcass

land

mortar

slime

white clay

stone

loamy

clayey soil

brown clay

wet ground

ground

white

soft mud

farm

boulder

ore

rock

muck

wet dirt

earthenware

terra cotta

sect

religion

sand

bolt agril

thunderbolt

kaolin

filtrate

residue

slippery ground

alluvium

ooze

puddle

silt

slab

slosh

sludge

pug

hargil

white bole

whitish soil

clay soil

tenacious clay

clay particle

potter’s clay

pot

adobe

be muddy

muddy

hard ground

soft ground

terracotta

sticky stuff

glue

gum

sap

pigment

pottery

daub

fail

Aas

carcase

delta

clay moth

swamp

ordinary

red

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kleɪ/

From Middle English cley, clay, from Old English clǣġ (“clay”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to glue, paste, stick together”). Cognate with Dutch klei (“clay”), Low German Klei (“clay”), German Klei, Danish klæg (“clay”); compare Ancient Greek γλία (glía), Latin glūten (“glue”) (whence ultimately English glue), Russian глина (glina, “clay”). Related also to clag, clog.