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clumps
CIDE DICTIONARY
clumps, n.
A game in which questions are asked for the purpose of enabling the questioners to discover a word or thing previously selected by two persons who answer the questions; -- so called because the players take sides in two “clumps” or groups, the “clump” which guesses the word winning the game. [1913 Webster]
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