clod

Whether it's a twig, a pebble or a clod of dirt, the randomness you get on a large scale is the same.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2024

To be fair, there is more to Johnson's story than him simply being a clod when it came to dogs.

From Salon ● May 20, 2023

Like most of Crumbl’s offerings, it was plump, doughy, intensely sweet and topped with a thick clod of frosting.

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023

The one of Rizzo, which was taken down on June 2, makes him look like a misshapen clod in an awkwardly buttoned jacket.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2020

When it had pulled the three dead ants into several positions, they would fall into line under the clod eventually, and that was its duty.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

As Teichman looked on, a few farmhands gingerly coaxed the cuttings out of the plastic sleeves, exposing young roots tangled in clods of soil.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2023

Digging in soggy conditions can damage a soil’s structure, creating impenetrable clods that hinder roots.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2023

It might form big clods that damage the crop or cut it into pieces.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2022

When it comes to mitigating climate change, soil scientists are most interested in what Silver calls occluded carbon — organic material, often in the form of dead microbes, trapped in clods of dirt.

From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2018

Mostly what I did was break up clods of dirt.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool