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What does clout mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word clout? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Influence or effectiveness, especially political.
  2. (regional, informal) A blow with the hand.
  3. (informal) A home run.
  4. (regional, dated) A swaddling cloth.
  5. (archaic) A cloth; a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag.
  6. (archaic) An iron plate on an axletree or other wood to keep it from wearing; a washer.
  7. (obsolete) A piece; a fragment.
Verb
  1. To hit, especially with the fist.
  2. To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout.
  3. To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole.
  4. To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree.
  5. To join or patch clumsily.
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