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Definition of Clagging
1. clag [v] - See also: clag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clagging
Literary usage of Clagging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity: With References to the Scotch and by John Hutton Balfour Browne (1880)
"I then took her on to the road, and picked the hay off her hair. The hair was
all wet with the water coming out of her mouth. The hay was all clagging ..."
2. Livelihood: Dramatic Reveries by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1917)
"... clagging to his hair, And trickling down his spine. He'ld like to know What
was the sense of pegging steadily, Chilled to the marrow, after a daft herd ..."
3. The Cook and Housewife's Manual: Containing the Most Approved Modern by Christian Isobel Johnstone (1828)
"Pound the whole well with a raw egg, and add a little good vinegar to keep the
ingredients from clagging. Mustard, or any stimulating ingredient, ..."
4. Old English Plays: Being a Selection from the Early Dramatic Writers by Charles Wentworth Dilke (1814)
"... Mounting to pleasure, all addict to mirth; Thou'lt read a satire or a sonnet
now, clagging their airy humour with ..."
5. Transactions of the Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland (1896)
"The pattern is kept warm by means of a gas jet placed beneath it to prevent "
clagging " or adhesion of sand to pattern on the with drawal of the latter ..."
6. The Cook and Housewife's Manual: A Practical System of Modern Demestic by Christian Isobel Johnstone (1847)
"Pound the whole well with a raw egg, and add a little good vinegar to keep it
from clagging. Rub through a sieve.* 604. Mushroom-Sauce, Beauvilliers' ..."
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