Clump

• n.塊；不器用な足取り；土塊
• vi. 固まりを作る；重い足取りで歩く
• vt. かたまりにする；かたまりにする

クラブ、チャンク、スティックと同じ語源。

clump (n.)

1580s, "lump; cluster of trees," from Middle English clompe "a lump" (c. 1300), from Dutch klomp "lump, mass," or Middle Low German klumpe "clog, wooden shoe." Old English had clympre "lump, mass of metal."

clump (v.2)

"walk heavily," 1660s, imitative. Related: Clumped; clumping.

clump (v.1)

"to heap or gather in clumps" (transitive), 1824, from clump (n.). Related: Clumped; clumping. Intransitive sense "to form a clump or clumps" is recorded from 1896.

1. The spade sank into a clump of overgrown bushes.

シャベルは勢いのある茂みに挿入された。

2.Brown rice takes longer to cook but it doesn 't clump together as easily as white rice.

玄米は火が通りにくいが、精米のようにくっつきやすいわけではない。

3.That clump down near the bottom.

坑底のクラスタに寄りかかっています。

4.Exasperated，he leaped the stream，and strode towards beech clump .

彼は怒って小川を飛び越え、ブナの林に向かって大股に歩いた。

5.A stream meandered gently through a clump of trees.

木立をくねくねと通る小川。