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clag
English
Etymology
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /klæ?/
- Rhymes: -æ?
Noun
clag (uncountable)
- A glue or paste made from starch.
- Low cloud, fog or smog.
- 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]
- 2001, Colin Castle, Lucky Alex: The Career of Group Captain A.M. Jardine Afc, CD, Seaman and Airman
- (railway slang) Unburned carbon (smoke) from a steam or diesel locomotive, or multiple unit.
- (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 (c.f marbles).
- He ran wide in the corner, hit the clag and spun off.
Derived terms
- claggy
Verb
clag (third-person singular simple present clags, present participle clagging, simple past and past participle 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
- c1620:Thomas Heywood, Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria
- 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.
- 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
Anagrams
- GLAC
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish cloc.
Noun
clag m (genitive singular cluig, plural cluig)
- bell
Derived terms
- shamyr chluig, thie cluig (“belfry”)
Mutation
Scottish Gaelic
Etymology
From Old Irish cloc.
Noun
clag m (genitive singular cluig, plural cluig)
- bell
Derived terms
- beum-cluig
Mutation
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clay
English
Etymology
From Middle English cley, clay, from Old English cl?? (“clay”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaij, from Proto-Germanic *klajjaz (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gley- (“to glue, paste, stick together”).
Cognate with Dutch klei (“clay”), Low German Klei (“clay”), German Klei, Danish klæg (“clay”); compare Ancient Greek ???? (glía), Latin gl?ten (“glue”) (whence ultimately English glue), Ukrainian ???? (glej, “clay”). Related also to clag, clog.
Pronunciation
- enPR: kl?, IPA(key): /kle?/, [kl?e?]
- Rhymes: -e?
Noun
clay (usually uncountable, plural clays)
- A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
- Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with (by way of local colour) on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust […].
- An earth material with ductile qualities.
- (tennis) A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
- (biblical) The material of the human body.
- 1611, Old Testament, King James Version, Job 10:8-9:
- Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about...thou hast made me as the clay.
- 1611, Old Testament, King James Version, Isaiah 64:8:
- But now, O Lord, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; and we are the work of thy hand.
- 1611, Old Testament, King James Version, Job 10:8-9:
- (geology) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
- (firearms, informal) A clay pigeon.
- We went shooting clays at the weekend.
- (informal) Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims
- Danzig is rightfully German clay.
Antonyms
- (material of the human body): soul, spirit
Hyponyms
- kaolin, kaoline
- ball clay
- fire clay
- potter's clay
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- alluvium
Verb
clay (third-person singular simple present clays, present participle claying, simple past and past participle clayed)
- (transitive) To add clay to, to spread clay onto.
- (transitive, of sugar) To purify using clay.
- 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 7: Of Colonies, Part 2: Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies,
- They amounted, therefore, to a prohibition, at first of claying or refining sugar for any foreign market, and at present of claying or refining it for the market, which takes off, perhaps, more than nine-tenths of the whole produce.
- 1809, Jonathan Williams, On the Process of Claying Sugar, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 6.
- 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book IV, Chapter 7: Of Colonies, Part 2: Causes of Prosperity of New Colonies,
References
- Krueger, Dennis (December 1982). "Why On Earth Do They Call It Throwing?" Studio Potter volume 11, Number 1.[2] (etymology)
- “clay” in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.
- Clay, New Webster Dictionary of English Language, 1980 edition.
Anagrams
- Lacy, acyl, lacy
Middle English
Noun
clay
- Alternative form of cley (“clay”)
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