Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To prick with a nail in shoeing: used by farriers. Skeat.
- To injure; harm; impair.
- To cloy; encumber; embarrass with superfluity; obstruct.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To fill to satiety; to stuff full; to clog; to overload; to burden. See
cloy .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, obsolete To drive a nail into a
horseshoe ; tolame . - verb transitive, obsolete To
overfill ; to fill tosatiety ; tostuff full. - verb transitive, obsolete To
clog , clog up; toblock . - verb transitive, archaic To be
disgusting to.
Etymologies
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From Old French encloyer, encloer ("to drive in a nail"), from Medieval Latin inclavare, from Latin in- + clavus ("nail").
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