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Cleg vs Clag - What's the difference?

cleg | clag |

As nouns the difference between cleg and clag

is that cleg is a light breeze while clag is a glue or paste made from starch.

As a verb clag is

(obsolete) to encumber.

cleg

English

Alternative forms

* gleg

Noun

(en noun)
  • A light breeze.
  • A blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae; a gadfly, a horsefly.
  • * 1657 , , Diary , I,
    • Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg , and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum .
  • * 1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 39,
    • 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.
  • * 1998 , V. K. Riabitsev, Once Season in the Taiga , 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.
  • * 2007 , John T. Wright, An Evacuee's Story: A North Yorkshire Family in Wartime , 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.
  • * 2011 , Denis Brook, Phil Hinchliffe, North to the Cape: A Trek from Fort William to Cape Wrath , 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.

    Synonyms

    * (blood-sucking fly of family Tabanidae) blind-fly (Central Africa), deer fly (genus Chrysops), gadfly, horsefly, tabanid

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    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.

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