No better pleased to stand still than to go on, he had fallen to digging at his neighbour, who retorted with the horn convenient, and presently there was a great mixing of bull and harness and Cloddy earth.
"What's Mine's Mine V1"
George MacDonald
Ohthere moreover said that the land of the Northmen was very long and very narrow; all that is fit either for pasture or ploughing lies along the sea coast, which, however, is in some parts very Cloddy; along the eastern side are wild moors, extending a long way up parallel to the cultivated land.
"The Discovery of Muscovy etc."
Richard Hakluyt
Young cotton plants do not grow well in Cloddy ground.
"How to Prosper in Boll Weevil Territory"
G. H. Alford