clod

One teenager recalled seeing  a boy his age pitch a clod of dirt at a mounted [Union] officer.

The News of the World and the Mirror both went with the punnier, " Hand of Clod."

Darling, don't you see—it's because you aren't a clod, because you're sensitive and imaginative that you experience fear.

The asphaltus is a clod of earth, liquefied by heat; the air forces it to the surface, where it spreads itself.

Go over it again and again until not a lump or clod remains in it.

Do I not daily curse this weak, lust-loving clod of flesh that holdeth prisoner a mind that at least once dreamed noble dreams?

"I won't become a clod-hopper," I exclaimed, seeing the dreary, endless monotony of such a life.