Cloy — Defs

01 v. t. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.

imp. & p. p. Cloyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Cloying

1.
To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog.[Obs.]
“The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones.” — Speed.
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.

“He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying.” — Dryden.
3.
To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
“Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed.” — Spenser.

“He never shod horse but he cloyed him.” — Bacon.
4.
To spike, as a cannon.[Obs.]
5.
To stroke with a claw.[Obs.]