accloy
verb/əˈklɔɪ/
Etymology From Middle English acloyen, from Old French encloyer, encloer (“to drive in a nail”), from Medieval Latin inclavare, from Latin in- + clavus (“nail”).
1
Obsolete To drive a nail into a horseshoe; to lame.
2
Obsolete To overfill; to fill to satiety; to stuff full.
3
Obsolete To clog, clog up; to block.
- At the well head the purest streames arise: / But mucky filth his braunching armes annoyes, / And with vncomely weedes the gentle waue accloyes.1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
4
Archaic To be disgusting to.