clump

Noun

• a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)

• a compact mass
  • a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder
    

• a grouping of a number of similar things
  • a bunch of trees
    
  • a cluster of admirers
    

Verb

• gather or cause to gather into a cluster
  • She bunched her fingers into a fist
    

• walk clumsily

• come together as in a cluster or flock
  • The poets constellate in this town every summer
    

• make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  thump , thumping , clunk , thud , ball , clod , glob , lump , chunk , bunch , cluster , clustering , bunch up , bundle , clomp , constellate , flock , clop , plunk