Cleg

Quick meaning: Cleg is a noun meaning (Scotland, England dialect) a blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae: gadfly, horsefly, deer fly, blind-fly, tabanid.

Meaning

(Scotland, England dialect) a blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae: gadfly, horsefly, deer fly, blind-fly, tabanid.

More Meanings

1. (now dialectal) A light breeze.

Example Sentences

Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg, and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum.

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.

Cattle were grazing languidly on the lush grass and flicking their tails to keep away the clegs that constantly plagued them and, having recently suffered a nasty bite from one, I was wary of them myself.

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.

Word Forms

• clegs
• clegg

Synonyms for cleg

Depending on context, synonyms include horsefly, clegg, horse fly.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include clegg, horse fly, horsefly, clift, clepe, libeccio.

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