Cloy /(kloi)/

Cloy

v. t.

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?
    He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying.
  3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
    Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed.
    He never shod horse but he cloyed him.
  4. To spike, as a cannon. [Obs.]
  5. To stroke with a claw. [Obs.]