clay pigeon | target used in skeet or trapshooting |
clay pipe | a pipe made of clay |
mold mould molding moulding modeling clay sculpture | sculpture produced by molding |
slate | (formerly) a writing tablet made of slate |
slate pencil | a pencil of soft slate (or soapstone) used for writing on a slate |
slate roof | a roof covered with slate |
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 |
slate ticket | a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices |
slate club | a group of people who save money in a common fund for a specific purpose (usually distributed at Christmas) |
Ali Muhammad Ali Cassius Clay Cassius Marcellus Clay | United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in ) |
Clay Henry Clay the Great Compromiser | United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (-) |
Clay Lucius Clay Lucius DuBignon Clay | United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from to and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (-) |
Frick Henry Clay Frick | United States industrialist who amassed a fortune in the steel industry (-) |
fresh start clean slate tabula rasa | an opportunity to start over without prejudice |
china clay china stone kaolin kaoline porcelain clay terra alba | a fine usually white clay formed by the weathering of aluminous minerals (as feldspar), used in ceramics and as an absorbent and as a filler (e.g., in paper) |
red clay | clay whose redness results from iron oxide |
residual soil residual clay | the soil that is remaining after the soluble elements have been dissolved |
argillaceous rock | a sedimentary rock formed from clay deposits |
slate | a fine-grained metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers |
bleaching clay bleaching earth | an adsorbent clay that will remove coloring from oils |
clay | a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired |
potter's clay potter's earth | clay that does not contain any iron, used in making pottery or for modeling |
schist | any metamorphic rock that can be split into thin layers |
indurated clay | hardened clay |
mud clay | water soaked soil, soft wet earth |
sedimentary clay | clay soil formed by sedimentary deposits |
shale | a sedimentary rock formed by the deposition of successive layers of clay |
humic shale | shale that is rich in humic acids |
oil shale | shale from which oil can be obtained by heating |
shale oil | oil extracted from oil shale by heating |
slate slating | thin layers of rock used for roofing |
till boulder clay | unstratified soil deposited by a glacier, consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together |
slate | designate or schedule, He slated his talk for AM, She was slated to be his successor |
slate | cover with slate, slate the roof |
pipe-clay | whiten or clean with pipe-clay, pipe-clay leather |
slate | enter on a list or slate for an election, He was slated for borough president |
argillaceous clayey | resembling or containing clay, argillaceous rocks |
slate-black | of a black tinged with slate-grey |
slate-grey slate-gray slaty-grey slaty-gray slaty slatey stone-grey stone-gray | of the color of slate or granite, the slaty sky of dawn |
clayey cloggy heavy | (used of soil) compact and fine-grained, the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated |