cloy

cloy is a   Verb

Definition:

[1] To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.] The duke`s purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. Speed.

[2] To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit. [Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast Shak. He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. Dryden.

[3] To penetrate or pierce; to wound. Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. Spenser. He never shod horse but he cloyed him. Bacon.

[4] To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.] Johnson.

[5] To stroke with a claw. [Obs.] Shak.

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