English

Etymology
Scandinavian: klag: mud

Pronunciation
IPA|klæg
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-æɡ|-æɡ

Noun
en-noun|-

1. A glue or paste made from starch.
2. 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]

1. italbrac|Railway slang Unburned carbon (smoke) from a diesel locomotive or multiple unit.

Derived terms
snaggy
Verb
en-verb|clags|clagging|clagged|clagged

1. 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

1. 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.

Scottish Gaelic

Noun
clag m, gen/pl cluig

1. A bell

Category:Scottish Gaelic nouns
Category:gd:Musical instruments

ru:clag

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