clay
• noun 1 a sticky impermeable earth that can be moulded when wet and baked to make bricks and pottery. 2 literary the substance of the human body. — DERIVATIVES clayey adjective. — ORIGIN Old English, related to CLEAVE2 and CLIMB.
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