Cloy, v. t.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. CLOYED; p. pr. & vb. n. CLOYING.] [O. Fr. cloer, N. Fr. clouer, to nail up, from O. Fr. clo, clou, N. Fr. clou, nail, from Lat. clavus, nail. Cf. CLOVE.]
Sense 1. To fill or stop up; to clog. [Obs.]
The duke’s purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones, and such like choking materials. Speed.
Then bathe I bed with brine, and cloy my couch with tears. Tuberville.
Sense 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.
Sense 3. To penetrate or pierce, as with a weapon, nail, &c. [Obs.]
Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. Spenser.
He never shod horse but he cloyed him. Bacon.
Sense 4. To spike, as a cannon, by driving a nail into the vent. [Obs.] Johnson.