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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
- 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 for what seemed like an eternity a footnote defines clag as low cloud cover
- (italbrac, Railway slang) Unburned carbon (smoke) from a diesel locomotive or multiple unit.
verb (clags, clagging, clagged, clagged)
- (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 means get sticky and put 'em in a pot of well-salted boiling water.
Etymology: Scandinavian: klag: mud
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