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单词 clag
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clagn.

Etymology: apparently < clag v.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

/klaɡ/
Forms: Also Middle English–1600s clagge.
Etymology: Not traced beyond the 15th cent.: perhaps of Norse origin, compare Danish klag , klagge , sticky mud, clay, klæg , klæget viscous, glutinous, sticky, which point to the same origin as Old English clæg , clay n. There may have been some subsequent association with clog; but in localities where clag is indigenous, it is kept quite distinct fromclog.
Chiefly northern dialect.
1. transitive. To bedaub (the clothes), clot (the hair) with anything sticky and tenacious, as miry clay, glue, toffee, etc.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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).
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