clotpole

also, clatpole.

In Elizabethan slang, it means 'wooden head' or 'block head'. It comes from 'clodpoll'.

The word 'clatpole' is used in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, Act 2, scene 1, lines 110–120.

Ajax:
I shall cut out your tongue.

Thersites:
'Tis no matter, I shall speak as much as thou afterwards.

Patroclus:
No more words, Thersites, peace!

Thersites:
I will hold my peace when Achilles' brach bids me, shall I?

Achilles:
There's for you, Patroclus.

Thersites:
I will see you hang'd like clatpoles (clotpole) ere I come any more to
your tents. I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the
faction of fools. *Exit*

Patroclus:
A good riddance.

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