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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Cleg, n. Also: clege. [Northern ME. clege (15th c.), clegge (1570), ON. klegge. See also Gleg n.] A horse-fly.c1420 Wynt. ii. 572–3 (C).
Bittyn thai war with senyphes, That a kynde of cleggis [R. gleggys] was, And alkyn kynde of cleggis als a1447 Bower Chron. II. 376.
The vnlatit woman … [is] Mare wily than a fox, pungis as the cleg 1661 Reg. Privy C. 3 Ser. I. 647.
Shoe … was stangit with ane clege on the sholder

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