north. dial. [app. f. the verb.]
1. The process or product of clagging; a sticky mass adhering to feet or clothes, entangled in hair, or the like; a clot of wool consolidated with dirt about the hinder parts of a sheep, etc.
1641. Best, Farm. Bks. (1856), 11. They [lambs] are then … forthwith to bee dressed and have their clagges clipped from them.
1877. E. Peacock, N. W. Linc. Gloss., Clags, dirt sticking to any one after walking in mud. Dirty wool cut from sheep.
1881. Sutton, N. Linc. Gloss., Clags, clotted locks of dirty wool on a sheep.
2. An encumbrance or burden on property. Sc.
1697. G. Dallas, Styles, 813 (Jam.). All claggs, claims, debates and contraversies standing betwixt them.
1722. Ramsay, Three Bonnets, I. 19. A good estate … handed down frae sire to son, But clag or claim, for ages past.
3. A stain or flaw on character. Sc.
1724. Ramsay, Tea-t. Misc. (1733), II. 206. He was a man without a clag, His heart was frank without a flaw.
