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# clop

«clop» in Mova's school dictionary: **The hollow knocking sound of a horse's hooves on a hard road** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a clop, clops); verb (clop, clops, clopped, clopping)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (noun) The hollow knocking sound of a horse's hooves on a hard road. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clop/#m1)

2) (verb) To walk making that sound, like a horse on cobbles, or a person in hard heavy shoes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clop/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it is an onomatopoeia — a word that sounds like what it means — telling the reader a horse is coming. Often doubled: «clip-clop», «clop, clop, clop».

### examples

- Clip-clop, clip-clop went the pony down the lane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clop/#x1)
- We heard the clop of hooves outside the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clop/#x2)
- The horse clopped slowly across the cobbled square. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clop/#x3)
- My little sister clopped around in Mum's high heels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clop/#x4)
- Clop, clop — the milk cart came round the corner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clop/#x5)
- The donkey's hooves clopped on the stones. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clop/#x6)
- In the poem, the clop of the horse woke the village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clop/#x7)

### note

Past form «clopped», «-ing» form «clopping» (double p). An example of onomatopoeia, like «buzz» and «splash». «Clip-clop» is the most common form in children's books.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «clop» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/clop/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.