Clag vs Clas - What's the difference?
clag | clas |
A glue or paste made from starch.
Low cloud, fog or smog.
* 1993: Harry Furniss, Memoirs - One: The Flying Game
* 2001: Colin Castle, Lucky Alex: The Career of Group Captain A.M. Jardine Afc, CD, Seaman and Airman
* 2004: David A Barr, One Lucky Canuck: An Autobiography
(Railway slang) Unburned carbon (smoke) from a steam or diesel locomotive, or multiple unit.
(Motor Racing slang) Bits of rubber which are shed from tires during a race and collect off the racing line, especially on the outside of corners.
(obsolete) To encumber
* c1620: Thomas Heywood, Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria
* 1725: Edward Taylor, Preparatory Meditations
To stick, like boots in mud
* 1999: "A queen of a Santee kitchen, pre-war", quoted by Mary Alston Read Simms in the Introduction to Rice Planter and Sportsman: The Recollections of J. Motte Alston, 1821-1909
As nouns the difference between clag and clas
is that clag is a glue or paste made from starch while clas is clause (linguistics).As a verb clag
is (obsolete) to encumber.clag
English
Noun
(-)- The sky was thick with dirty gray clag
- This programme included practice interceptions, simulator training, day flying, night flying, clag flying -- in addition to... [a footnote states that clag flying was Air Force slang for foul weather flying.]
- We went along in the clag for what seemed like an eternity [a footnote defines clag'' as ''low cloud cover ]
- He put the throttle on full and the loco clagged.
- He ran wide in the corner, hit the clag and spun off.
Derived terms
* snaggyVerb
- As when the orchard boughes are clag'd with fruite
- Can such draw to me/My stund affections all with Cinders clag'd
- Wash the rice well in two waters, if you don't wash 'em, 'e will clag [clag means get sticky] and put 'em in a pot of well-salted boiling water.