Cleg vs Cley - What's the difference?
cleg | cley |
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 ,
(obsolete) A claw.
* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 74:
*:"But that more heavy'' Birds are otherwise provided for defence, namely either by ''Spurs'' that grow on their Legs, or by the strength and sharpness of some single cley in their Foot; as I have observed in the ''Cassoware'' or ''Emeu "
As nouns the difference between cleg and cley
is that cleg is a light breeze while cley is a claw.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.
