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Definition clay
Etymology
From Middle English cley, clay, from Old English cl?? (�clay�), 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 kl�g (�clay�); compare Ancient Greek ???? (gl�a), Latin gl?ten (�glue�) (whence ultimately English glue), Ukrainian ???? (glej, �clay�). Related also to clag, clog.
Noun
clay (usually uncountable, plural clays)
- A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
- An earth material with ductile qualities.
- (tennis) A tennis court surface.
- (biblical) The material of the human body.
- (geology) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
- (firearms, informal) A clay pigeon.
- (informal) Land or territory of a country or other political region.
Verb
clay (third-person singular simple present clays, present participle claying, simple past and past participle clayed)
- (transitive) To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
- (transitive, of sugar) To purify using clay.
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