Cleg - What does it mean?
cleg | |
A light breeze.
A blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae; a gadfly, a horsefly.
* 1657 , , Diary , I,
* 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 39,
* 1998 , V. K. Riabitsev, Once Season in the Taiga ,
* 2007 , John T. Wright, An Evacuee's Story: A North Yorkshire Family in Wartime ,
* 2011 , Denis Brook, Phil Hinchliffe, North to the Cape: A Trek from Fort William to Cape Wrath ,
cleg
English
Alternative forms
* glegNoun
(en noun)- Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg , and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum .
- Now that was in summer, the time of fleas and glegs' and golochs in the fields, when stirks would start up from a drowsy cud-chewing to a wild a feckless racing, the ' glegs biting through hair and hide to the skin below the tail-rump.
page 138,
- The clegs' continue to swarm all around. I wonder how many there are.Remaining seated on the block, I seize ' clegs out of the surrounding air at random, and with scissors cut out a tiny triangle from the rear edge of each one's right wing before releasing it.
page 361,
- Cattle were grazing languidly on the lush grass and flicking their tails to keep away the clegs that constantly plagued them and, having recently suffered a nasty bite from one, I was wary of them myself.
page 49,
- Whilst the swarms which surround you are annoying, they do not bite. It is the midges, clegs and ticks you should be on the lookout for.
