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clay   (TTS Sound)

The noun clay has 5 senses

• clay -- (a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired)


• mud, clay -- (water soaked soil; soft wet earth)


• Clay, Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon Clay -- (United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978))


• Clay, Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser -- (United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852))


• cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remains -- (the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay")