Clag vs Claw - What's the difference?

clag | claw |

As a noun clag

is a glue or paste made from starch.

As a verb clag

is (obsolete) to encumber.

As a proper noun claw is

clag

English

Noun

(-)

A glue or paste made from starch.

Low cloud, fog or smog.

* 1993: Harry Furniss, Memoirs - One: The Flying Game

The sky was thick with dirty gray clag

* 2001: Colin Castle, Lucky Alex: The Career of Group Captain A.M. Jardine Afc, CD, Seaman and Airman

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.]

* 2004: David A Barr, One Lucky Canuck: An Autobiography

We went along in the clag for what seemed like an eternity [a footnote defines clag'' as ''low cloud cover ]

(Railway slang) Unburned carbon (smoke) from a steam or diesel locomotive, or multiple unit.

He put the throttle on full and the loco clagged.

(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.

He ran wide in the corner, hit the clag and spun off.

Derived terms

* snaggy

Verb

(obsolete) To encumber

* c1620: Thomas Heywood, Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria

As when the orchard boughes are clag'd with fruite

* 1725: Edward Taylor, Preparatory Meditations

Can such draw to me/My stund affections all with Cinders clag'd

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

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.

Anagrams

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claw

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) clawe, from (etyl) clawu, from (etyl) . Compare West Frisian klau, Dutch klauw, German Klaue, Danish klo.

Noun

(en noun)

A curved, pointed horny nail on each digit of the foot of a mammal, reptile, or bird.

A foot equipped with such.

The pincer (chela) of a crustacean or other arthropod.

A mechanical device resembling a claw, used for gripping or lifting.

(botany) A slender appendage or process, formed like a claw, such as the base of petals of the pink.

(Gray)

(juggling, uncountable) The act of catching a ball overhand.

Derived terms

* claw hammer * get one's claws into

External links

* (wikipedia "claw")

Etymology 2

From (etyl) clawian, from clawu.

Verb

(en verb)

To scratch or to tear at.

* '>citation

Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.

To use the claws to seize, to grip.

To use the claws to climb.

(juggling) To perform a catch.

To move with one's fingertips.

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, year=2011 , date=October 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=De Gea was United's hero again within seconds of Hernandez's equaliser, diving to his left to claw away Dirk Kuyt's shot as he got on the end of a superb cross from Stewart Downing.}}

(obsolete) To relieve uneasy feeling, such as an itch, by scratching; hence, to humor or flatter, to court someone.

* 1599 ,

I cannot hide what I am: I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no man's jests; eat when I have stomach, and wait for no man's leisure; sleep when I am drowsy, and tend on no man's business; laugh when I am merry, and claw no man in his humour.

* Holland

Rich men they claw , soothe up, and flatter; the poor they contemn and despise.

(obsolete) To rail at; to scold.

* T. Fuller

In the aforesaid preamble, the king fairly claweth' the great monasteries, wherein, saith he, religion, thanks be to God, is right well kept and observed; though he ' claweth them soon after in another acceptation.