[f. CLING v. + -ER.]
1. One who clings; one who adheres to.
1836. L. Hunt, in New Monthly Mag., XLVII. 19. Age, the wither’d clinger, On us mutely gazes, And wraps the thought of his last bed in his childhood’s daisies.
1877. Spectator, 17 Nov., 1429/2. Tenacious clingers to the shadow of the past.
† 2. = CLINCHER, CLINKER. Obs.
1514. Fitzherb., Just. Peas (1538), 93. All clingers [take] 3d. with meat and drinke.
