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clagging

clagging is the present participle and gerund of clag.

Meaning of clag

Verb (1)

clag (third-person singular simple present clags, present participle clagging, simple past and past participle clagged)

  1. (obsolete) To encumber
    • As when the orchard boughes are clag'd with fruitec. 1620, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars Amatoria
  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

Verb (2)

clag (third-person singular simple present clags, present participle clagging, simple past and past participle clagged)

  1. (Geordie, Teesside) To hit

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Questions about clagging

What is clagging the present participle and gerund of?
Clagging is the present participle and gerund of clag.

Words near clagging in the dictionary

  1. clagged
  2. Claggett
  3. Claggetts
  4. claggier
  5. claggiest
  6. clagging
  7. Claggs
  8. claggum
  9. claggy
  10. Claghorn
  11. Claghorns

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