accloy

Meanings

verbaccloy (third-person singular simple present accloys, present participle accloying, simple past and past participle accloyed)

present singular third person accloys · participle present accloying · participle past accloyed · past accloyed

obsoletetransitiveTo drive a nail into a horseshoe; to lame.
obsoletetransitiveTo overfill; to fill to satiety; to stuff full.
obsoletetransitiveTo clog, clog up; to block.
At the well head the purest streames arise: / But mucky filth his braunching armes annoyes, / And with vncomely weedes the gentle waue accloyes.
1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii
archaictransitiveTo be disgusting to.

From Middle English acloyen, from Old French encloyer, encloer (“to drive in a nail”), from Medieval Latin inclavare, from Latin in- + clavus (“nail”).