clag

1. uncountableA glue or paste made from starch.
2. uncountableLow cloud, fog or smog.

   The sky was thick with dirty gray clag

   1993, Harry Furniss, Memoirs - One: The Flying Game

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   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.]

   2001, Colin Castle, Lucky Alex: The Career of Group Captain A.M. Jardine Afc, CD, Seaman and Airman

   We went along in the clag for what seemed like an eternity [a footnote defines clag as low cloud cover]

   2004, David A. Barr, One Lucky Canuck: An Autobiography

3. uncountablerailway slangUnburned carbon (smoke) from a steam or diesel locomotive, or multiple unit.
4. slanguncountablehobbiesBits of rubber which are shed from tires during a race and collect off the racing line, especially on the outside of corners (cf. marbles).

   He ran wide in the corner, hit the clag and spun off.

present singular third person clags · participle present clagging · participle past clagged · past clagged

1. obsoleteTo encumber

   As when the orchard boughes are clag'd with fruite

   c. 1620, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria

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   Can such draw to me/My stund affections all with Cinders clag'd

   1725, Edward Taylor, Preparatory Meditations

2. To stick, like boots in mud

   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

present singular third person clags · participle present clagging · participle past clagged · past clagged

1. GeordieTeessideTo hit