a. [f. prec. + -Y.] Of the nature of cledge; clayey; stiff, tenacious, sticky.
1577. Harrison, England, I. xviii. (1881), III. 139. The sundrie kinds of moold, as the cledgie or claie. Ibid. (1587), II. vi. (1877), I. 160. Although the waters that run by chalke or cledgie soiles be good.
1695. Kennett, Par. Antiq., Gloss. (E. D. S.), Clodgy, cledgy, stiff and dirty. Kent.
1768. Projects, in Ann. Reg., 110/1. The stiff cledgy land was but little better.
1876. Surrey Provinc. (E. D. S.), Cledgy, wet, sticky, of ground. Land is said ‘to work so cledgy.’
1887. Kentish Gloss. (E. D. S.), Cledgy, stiff and sticky.
