单词 | clag |
释义 | clagn. northern dialect. 1. The process or product of clagging; a sticky mass adhering to feet or clothes, entangled in hair, or the like; a clot of wool consolidated with dirt about the hinder parts of a sheep, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > dirty, sticky mass claga1642 a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 13 They [sc. lambs] are then..forthwith to bee dressed and have their clagges clipped from them. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Clags, dirt sticking to any one after walking in mud. Dirty wool cut from sheep. 1881 E. Sutton N. Lincs. Words in Orig. Gloss. (Eng. Dial. Soc. Publ. No. 32) 116 Clags, clotted locks of dirty wool on a sheep. 2. An encumbrance or burden on property. Scottish. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > management of money > insolvency > indebtedness > [noun] > encumbrance or mortgage on property mortgagec1450 encumbrancy1554 engagement1611 encumbrance1629 clag1697 1697 G. Dallas Syst. Stiles 813 (Jam.) All claggs, claims, debates and contraversies standing betwixt them. 1722 A. Ramsay Tale Three Bonnets i. 4 A good Estate..handed down frae Sire to Son, But Clag or Claim, for Ages past. 3. A stain or flaw on character. Scottish. ΚΠ 1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (1733) II. 206 He was a man without a clag, His heart was frank without a flaw. Draft additions June 2018 colloquial (originally Aeronautics and Air Force). Low-level cloud associated with poor visibility and damp, drizzly conditions; mist, fog. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [noun] misteOE roke1292 vapourc1386 nyle1481 stove1513 fumec1550 rouka1586 misting1604 steam1612 dampa1616 petty-fog1641 smoke1648 brume1694 muga1728 ure1818 nebule1869 nebula1894 moist1903 M1904 clag1940 1940 S. Johnstone Diary 1 July in Enemy in Sky (1976) 73 A solid wall of cloud stretching from sea level to goodness knows what height, for we were still in the clag at 25,000 feet. 1951 Flight & Aircraft Engineer 14 Sept. 363/2 We..were unable to climb clear of the ‘clag’; so we had to return. 1965 AOPA Pilot Sept. 68/2 Something had kept me right way up and flying for more than an hour in solid ‘clag’. 1975 N.Z. Alpine Jrnl. 28 25/2 Despite a beautiful dawn and a good forecast, clag came in towards the end of the day. 1993 Times 2 Apr. 1/7 What should have been the RAF's biggest fly-past for 40 years was grounded..by torrential rain and clag over Clacton. 2013 H. Dawe Adventures in Mind ii The clag was settled firmly on the hilltops. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2019). clagv. Chiefly northern dialect. 1. transitive. To bedaub (the clothes), clot (the hair) with anything sticky and tenacious, as miry clay, glue, toffee, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > clogged or stuck together with dirt > clog or stick together with dirt [verb (transitive)] beclogc1340 clag1488 berk1568 balter1601 beclam1674 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vi. l. 455 The gown and hois in clay that claggit was. a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. Cxl We come to the gates all clagged with myre & clay. c1538 D. Lindsay Supplic. against Syde Taillis 68 Ane mureland Meg..Claggit with clay abone the howis. 1881 E. Sutton N. Lincs. Words in Orig. Gloss. (Eng. Dial. Soc. Publ. No. 32) 116 Clagged, clotted with dirt. 1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. Clag, to daub, or clog together with sticky mud or clay. 2. To clog by such bedaubing or clotting. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > render immobile [verb (transitive)] > render motionless > by sticky substance gluea1387 clag1526 clog1526 shelf1652 beboga1661 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. OOOiv She [sc. the bee] wyll also clagge her legges wt as moche as she maye beare. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 66 A meanes to clagge the bees and to make them abide better in the hive. 1883 T. Lees Easther's Gloss. Dial. Almondbury & Huddersfield Clag, the same as clog, as when dust [mixed with the oil] causes machinery to move with difficulty. 3. intransitive. To stick tenaciously, as anything adhesive, or viscid; also transferred. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > be or become attached or affixed [verb (intransitive)] > remain attached > adhere cleavec897 to stick (cleave, cling, etc.) like a burc1330 sita1398 clinga1400 clengec1400 engleim?1440 adhere1557 clag1563 clasp1569 clencha1600 clung1601 clam1610 yclingec1620 affix1695 clinch1793 to stick (to one) like wax1809 cleam- 1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 14 Least by raine and shoures, the earth should cleaue and clagge on your feete. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Aiiiv/2 To Clag, herere vt lutum. 1796 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. (ed. 2) II. 312 Clag, to cleave or cling. 1855 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Yorks. Words 30 Clag, to adhere as paste; also to cling as the child to the mother, who says ‘it clags to its best friend.’ 1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Clag, to adhere, to cling, to cleave to. 4. dialect. [ < clag n.] To remove the clags or dirty clots from a fleece. (Cf. clack v.1 and adv.) ΚΠ 1863 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 721/3 Clag (Linc.), see Burl. [Burl, to cut away the dirty wool from the hind parts of a sheep.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1642v.1488 |
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