cleg
Noun
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Noun
cleg (plural clegs)
- (now dialectal) A light breeze.
- (Scotland, England dialect) A blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae; a gadfly, a horsefly.
- 1657, Thomas Burton (politician), Diary, I,
- Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg, and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum.
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 39,
- Now that was in summer, the time of fleas and glegs and golochs in the fields, when stirks would start up from a drowsy cud-chewing to a wild a feckless racing, the glegs biting through hair and hide to the skin below the tail-rump.
- 2011, Denis Brook, Phil Hinchliffe, North to the Cape: A Trek from Fort William to Cape Wrath, page 49 ↗,
- Whilst the swarms which surround you are annoying, they do not bite. It is the midges, clegs and ticks you should be on the lookout for.
- 1657, Thomas Burton (politician), Diary, I,
- (blood-sucking fly of family Tabanidae) blind-fly (Central Africa), deer fly (genus Chrysops), gadfly, horsefly, tabanid
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