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单词 cloy
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cloyv.1

Brit. /klɔɪ/, U.S. /klɔɪ/
Etymology: Aphetic form of acloy, accloy v.; but it is possible that sense 1 directly represents Old French cloye-r , modern clou-er to nail. Senses 5 8 appear to run together with those of clog v.
1. transitive. To nail, to fasten with a nail. Obsolete.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > with nails
nailOE
clencha1250
clinkc1440
rivetc1450
cloyc1460
clowa1522
to nail up1532
clinch1570
clint1575
inclavate1666
to nail down1669
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 3464 Hym list to dryv in bet þe nayll, til they wer fully cloyid.
2. To prick (a horse) with a nail in shoeing; = accloy v. 1a. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > cause injury or disease of horse [verb (transitive)] > disorders of feet or hooves > caused by shoeing
accloyc1330
encloy1393
clowa1522
cloy1530
prick1591
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 487/2 I cloye a horse, I drive a nayle in to the quycke of his foote. Jencloue... A smyth hath cloyed my horse.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 341 When a horsse is shouldered..or his hooue cloid with a naile.
1625 F. Bacon Apophthegmes §277. 302 He would haue made the worst Farrier in the world, for he neuer shod horse, but hee cloyed him.
1704 Dict. Rusticum Cloyed, or Accloy'd, is no other, than the pricking of an Horse with a Nail in the Shooing.
3. To pierce as with a nail, to gore. rare.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > bore, pierce, or perforate > with something sharp-pointed
shearOE
sting993
stickOE
spita1225
wound?c1225
stitchc1230
pitcha1275
threstc1275
forprick1297
steekc1300
piercec1325
rivec1330
dag?a1400
jag?a1400
lancec1400
pickc1400
tamec1400
forpierce1413
punch1440
launch1460
thringc1485
empiercec1487
to-pierce1488
joba1500
ding1529
stob?1530
probe1542
enthrill1563
inthirlc1580
cloy1590
burt1597
pink1597
lancinate1603
perterebrate1623
puncture1675
spike1687
skiver1832
bepierce1840
gimlet1841
prong1848
javelin1859
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vi. sig. Hh7 That foe of his [sc. a wild boar], Which with his cruell tuske him deadly cloyd.
4. To spike (a gun), i.e. to render it useless by driving a spike or plug into the touch-hole. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > putting weapons or equipment out of action > put weapons or equipment out of action [verb (transitive)] > silence a gun > by spiking
clowa1522
peg1551
to nail up1562
cloy1577
nail1598
spick1623
spike1644
wedge1680
spike1687
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1807/2 [They] stopped and cloyed the touch holes of three peeces of the artillerie.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 801 They should..cloy the great ordidance [sic], that it might not afterwards stand the Turks in stead.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. ii. ii. 165 Hauing brought with them..spykes, to cloy the Ordinance.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. 19 Be sure that none of our Guns be cloy'd.
1711 Mil. & Sea Dict. (ed. 4) at Nail To Nail Cannon, or, as some call it, To Cloy..but this is an antiquated Word.
1768 E. Buys New & Compl. Dict. Terms Art I. at Cloyed a Piece of Ordnance is said to be cloyed, when any Thing is got into the Touch-hole.
5. To stop up, block, obstruct, choke up (a passage, channel, etc.); to crowd or fill up. Obsolete.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close by obstruction or block up
fordita800
forstop?c1225
estopa1420
accloy1422
ferma1522
clam1527
quar1542
cloy1548
dam1553
occlude1581
clog1586
impeach1586
bung1589
gravel1602
impediment1610
stifle1631
foul1642
obstipate1656
obturate1657
choke1669
blockade1696
to flop up1838
jama1865
to ball up1884
gunge1976
the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > to obstruction
cumberc1394
encumberc1400
cloy1548
pester1548
accumberc1571
clog1586
to take up1587
lumber1642
over-clog1660
crowd1741
jama1865
1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. sig. B.vijv These kepers had rammed vp their outer dores, cloyd & stopt vp their stayres within, [etc.].
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. 166 Those professions and occupations, which be most cloyed vp with number.
1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 98 The fresh is not able to checke the salt water, that cloyeth the chanell.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xvi. 659/1 The Dukes purpose was to haue cloyed the harbour by sinking shippes laden with stones, and such like choaking materials.
1636 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. (new ed.) 308 The Alps themselues heapt high with winter snowes, and so the wayes cloyed uppe.
1636 G. Sandys Paraphr. Div. Poems (1648) Lament. ii. 5 Thy Anger cloyes the Grave.
6. figurative. To clog, obstruct, or impede (movement, activity, etc.); to weigh down, encumber. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > encumber
accumberc1275
encumberc1386
accloy1422
overlay1441
cumber1493
poister1523
pester1533
overgrowa1550
clog1564
cloy1564
aggravate1573
trasha1616
hamper1775
mither1847
lumber1861
1564 T. Becon Flower Godly Prayers (1844) 18 That heavy bondage of the flesh, wherewith I am most grievously cloyed.
1567 G. Turberville To Young Gent. taking Wyf in Poems (R.) A bearing wyfe with brats will cloy thee sore.
1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 137 Beyng clogged and fastened to this state of bondage (as it were cloyed in claye).
1665 J. Glanvill Scepsis Scientifica i. 3 The soul being not cloy'd by an unactive mass, as now.
7. To overload with food, so as to cause loathing; to surfeit or satiate (with over-feeding, or with richness, sweetness, or sameness of food).
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > eat or drink to excess [verb (transitive)] > feed (oneself) to excess
over-quatc1275
glutc1315
fill1340
stuffa1400
aglutc1400
agroten1440
grotenc1440
ingrotenc1440
sorporrc1440
replenisha1450
pegc1450
quatc1450
overgorgea1475
gorge1486
burst1530
cloy1530
saturate1538
enfarce1543
mast?1550
engluta1568
gull1582
ingurgitate1583
stall1583
forage1593
paunch1597
upbray1598
upbraid1599
surfeitc1600
surcharge1603
gormandize1604
overfeed1609
farcinate1634
repletiate1638
stodge1854
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 487/2 I cloye, I charge ones stomacke with to moche meate..You have cloyed hym so moche that he is sicke nowe.
1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health cliii. 130 The fatte of flesh alone without leane is vnwholesome, & cloyeth the stomack.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iii. 259 Who can..cloy the hungry edge of appetite, By bare imagination of a feast? View more context for this quotation
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iii. iii. 399 They being alwayes accustomed to the same dishes..are therefore cloyed.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xii. 266 Though this was a food that we had been long..confined to..we were far from being cloyed with it.
1848 T. De Quincey Life & Adventures Goldsmith in N. Brit. Rev. May 189 To be cloyed perpetually is a worse fate than sometimes to stand within the vestibule of starvation.
8.
a. figurative. To satiate, surfeit, gratify beyond desire; to disgust, weary (with excess of anything).
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the mind > emotion > suffering > feeling of weariness or tedium > be or become wearied or bored with [verb (transitive)] > satiate or surfeit
sadeOE
overcloy1527
satiatea1530
stuff1530
cloy1576
clog1590
surcloy1594
satea1616
clama1670
pall1680
stale1709
1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. Lv Both satisfied with deepe delight, And cloyde with al content.
1588 J. Udall State Church of Eng. sig. D4v Often preachinge cloyeth the people.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) ii. ii. 242.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia i. 17 But not to cloy you with particulars..I refer you to the Authors owne writing.
1752 H. Fielding Amelia II. iv. ii. 8 Amelia's Superiority to her whole Sex, who could not cloy a gay young Fellow by many Years Possession.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I i. 3 After cloying the gazettes with cant.
absolute.1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. xxvi. 273 These are enough to satisfy, more would cloy.1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. ii. 227 The two frequent Recurrency of Concords cloys.1829 H. Neele Lit. Remains 32 His [Pope's] sweetness cloys at last.
b. intransitive (for reflexive). To become satiated. rare.
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1721 A. Ramsay Tartana 160 If Sol himself should shine thro' all the day, We cloy, and lose the pleasure of his ray.
9. To starve. (Some error.)
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1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Riiiv/2 To Cloy, fame consumere.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cloyv.2

Obsolete. rare.
Steevens conjectures ‘To claw, to scratch with the claw’; Johnson: ‘perhaps, to strike the beak together’
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. v. 212 His Royall Bird Prunes the immortall wing, and cloyes his Beake, As when his God is pleas'd. View more context for this quotation
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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