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  • obsolete imp. of cling.

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  • verb obsolete Past participle of cling

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Examples

  • Simply cut clong either side of it by setting the chicken in an upright position or use the shears to cut through the bones.

    Chicken with Paprika Katie Khoury 2008

  • Simply cut clong either side of it by setting the chicken in an upright position or use the shears to cut through the bones.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Katie Khoury 2008

  • Finding his injunction disregarded, he stepped forward and brought it down one-handed on the intruder's head with a dull clong!

    Drums of Autumn Gabaldon, Diana 1997

  • The MacKenzie jerked back, looking startled for a moment, then grinned with a flash of white teeth, and banged his blade flat on top of Jamie's head, with a resounding clong.

    Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

  • And as she clong to him and cried, her patient harte with joy did brast,

    A Little Book of Western Verse Eugene Field 1872

  • The clong of the small schoolhouse bell summoned them.

    Catapult Magazine Amanda Cleary Eastep 2010

  • The clong of the small schoolhouse bell summoned them.

    Catapult Magazine Amanda Cleary Eastep 2010

  • The clong of the small schoolhouse bell summoned them.

    Catapult Magazine Amanda Cleary Eastep 2010

  • In many of these markets, denial reigns as owners clong to the belief that the slump is temporary, their paper losses transitory.

    Minyanville 2009

  • I recently had to clone a hard disk so I naturally turned to solutions such as Acronis True Image, but I discovered these did not work (the start-up disk claimed the clong was 'complete' when it blatantly wasn't) and I also tried copying the partition using gParted in Ubuntu but this froze at about 3\%, due to corrupt data, which seemed not to be caught in a chkdsk.

    gHacks technology news 2009

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  • My first girlfriend was a bit clongy.

    January 3, 2016