Again, I lifted the fork and sank it into the dry, lumpen clay.

The road was clay, not quite dry enough to be dusty, and with few tracks indeed on its surface.

Generally, hard-pan refers to hard, dry clay, with very little or no grass.

The land, already dry and hard as fired clay, cracked like a loaf baked too long in the oven.

I started with hard, dry clay from the river's edge and pounded it to dusty earth.

But the dry clay of the cellar floor was far too hard to reveal any footprints.

Glinnes tipped up the iron to reveal a cake of dry clay, which he also removed.

A chunk of the friable dry clay on which he was standing broke off under his feet.

The scraper is also useful for trimming damp or dry clay.

The ground was dry clay that seemed hard as cement, but plants grew everywhere, and in no esthetic or logical pattern.