clumping through the hall was his second cousin, Lena, the Cowleses' "hired girl."
As she opened the squeaky screen-door he was clumping down the steps.
He went to the bank building and entered the rear door, clumping heavily up the stairs, for he felt a heavy depression.
It was as musical as the clumping of a new pair of red topped boots.
They were clumping along, chattering gaily, when Katy jumped and let out a yell that could have been heard a block away.
They heard a clumping step upon the staircase, and, when it reached the landing, it stopped at their door.
Therefore anthropo-geography, instead of clumping the passes, sorts them out, and notes different relations in each.
The man was clumping slowly along in his rubber boots; an old cap was slewed awry on his head, its peak drawn down over one ear.
There was a great army of them, clumping down the road the way they do.
They must combine with the foreign cells and also bring about their clumping together, their agglutination.
1580s, "lump; cluster of trees," from Middle English clompe "a lump" (c.1300), from Dutch klomp "lump, mass," or Middle Low German klumpe "clog, wooden shoe." Old English had clympre "lump, mass of metal."
"to heap or gather in clumps" (transitive), 1824, from clump (n.). Related: Clumped; clumping. Intransitive sense "to form a clump or clumps" is recorded from 1896.
"walk heavily," 1660s, imitative. Related: Clumped; clumping.
clumping clump·ing (klŭm'pĭng)
The massing together of bacteria or other cells suspended in a fluid.