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    clout
    [klout]
    verb
    clouting (present participle)
    1. informal
      hit hard with the hand or a hard object:
      "I clouted him on the head"
    2. archaic
      mend with a patch:
      "he helps the women clout their pans"
    Origin
    Old English clūt (in the sense ‘a patch or metal plate’); related to Dutch kluit ‘lump, clod’, also to cleat and clot. The shift of sense to ‘heavy blow’, which dates from late Middle English, is difficult to explain; possibly the change occurred first in the verb (from ‘put a patch on’ to ‘hit hard’).
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