Usually means: Fine-grained earth material, moldable.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word clay:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Clay, clay: Merriam-Webster
  2. clay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Clay, clay: Vocabulary.com
  6. Clay, clay: Wordnik
  7. clay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Clay, clay: Wiktionary
  9. clay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. clay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. clay: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. clay: Dictionary.com
  13. clay: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. clay: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Clay (disambiguation), Clay (industrial plasticine), Clay (name), Clay (novel), Clay (short story), Clay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Clay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. clay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Clay: Rhymezone
  19. clay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. clay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. clay: FreeDictionary.org
  22. clay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Clay: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. clay: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. clay: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. clay: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Clay (Kaolin): Health & Beauty Glossary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clay: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. CLAY: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. clay: Idioms
  6. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Clay: Easton Bible
  2. Clay: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. clay: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Clay: Urban Dictionary

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. "https://digitalfire.com/4sight/glossary/c.html">Clay: Ceramic Terminology Glossary
  3. clay: Canadian Soil Information System
  4. Clay (Kaolin): Beauty & Health Glossary
  5. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. Clay: Pottery Studio
  8. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)
  9. CLAY: Power Engineering
  10. CLAY: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary

(Note: See clayey as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
noun:  An earth material with ductile qualities.
noun:  (tennis) A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
noun:  (biblical) The material of the human body.
noun:  (geology) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
noun:  A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
noun:  (firearms, informal) A clay pigeon.
noun:  (Internet slang, humorous) Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims.
noun:  A moth, Mythimna ferrago
verb:  (transitive) To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
verb:  (transitive, of sugar) To purify using clay.
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation.
noun:  A male given name transferred from the surname.
noun:  A diminutive of the male given name Clayton.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A city in Jefferson County, Alabama.
noun:  A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California.
noun:  A home rule city in Webster County, Kentucky, named after Henry Clay.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Adair County, Missouri.
noun:  A town in Onondaga County, New York, named after Henry Clay.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Franklin Township, Jackson County, Ohio.
noun:  A census-designated place in Burleson County, Texas.
noun:  A town, the county seat of Clay County, West Virginia.
noun:  A ghost town in the town of Komensky, Jackson County, Wisconsin.
noun:  A number of townships in the United States, listed under Clay Township.
noun:  Ellipsis of Clay County. [A county, one of 67 in Alabama, United States. County seat: Ashland.]

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