clag

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English claggen, probably of Scandinavian origin. Compare Swedish klägg and Old English clǣġ. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /klæɡ/ Rhymes: -æɡ === Noun === clag (uncountable) A glue or paste made from starch. Low cloud, fog or smog. (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 (cf. marbles). ==== Derived terms ==== === Verb === clag (third-person singular simple present clags, present participle clagging, simple past and past participle clagged) (obsolete) To encumber 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. === Verb === clag (third-person singular simple present clags, present participle clagging, simple past and past participle clagged) (Geordie, Teesside) To hit === Anagrams === GLAC == Manx == === Etymology === From Old Irish cloc. === Noun === clag m (genitive singular cluig, plural cluig) bell ==== Derived terms ==== === Mutation === == Scottish Gaelic == === Etymology === From Middle Irish cloc, from Old Irish cloc. Cognates include Irish clog and Manx clag. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈkʰl̪ˠak/ === Noun === clag m bell ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === Mutation === === References === Mark, Colin (2003), “clag”, in The Gaelic–English dictionary, London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 138