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A clumsy boat, used for conveying provisions, fruit, etc., for sale, to vessels lying in port or off shore.

To act or work in a clumsy, awkward manner.

A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles. If to be a dunce or a bungler in any profession be shameful, how much more ignominious and infamous to a scholar to be such! Barrow.

Unskillful; awkward; clumsy; as, a bungling workman. Swift. They make but bungling work. Dryden.

Clumsily; awkwardly.

To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump. The policeman with clamping feet. Thackeray.

To join or patch clumsily. If fond Bavius vent his clouted song. P. Fletcher

Clumsy; awkward. [Obs.] Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips.

To make clumsily. "Cobbled rhymes." Dryden.

A clumsy workman. Shak.

A tuft or clump. [Obs.] Tusser.

A clumsy craft, having one mast with a long sail, used for trading purposes on the coasts of Coromandel and Ceylon. [Written also dhony, doney, and done.]

A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.] Smart.

An addition. [R.] Clumsy ekes that may well be spared. Geddes.

task; as, military or naval exercises; musical exercises; an exercise in composition. The clumsy exercises of the European tourney. Prescott. He seems to have taken a degree, and preformed public exercises in Cambridge, in 1565. Brydges.

o have the appearance of a feather or of feathers; to be or to appear in feathery form. A clump of ancient cedars feathering in evergreen beauty down to the ground. Warren. The ripple feathering from her bows. Tennyson.

To fall, sink, or throw one's self, heavily, clumsily, and unexpectedly on the ground. [Colloq.] Dickens.

minately applied to any large sailing vessel. The gallens . . . were huge, round-stemmed, clumsy vessels, with bulwarks three or four feet thick, and built up at stem and stern, like castels. Motley.

Left handed; hence, awkward; clumsy.

An awkward action; clumsiness; boorishness.