Obs. rare–1. Steevens conjectures ‘To claw, to scratch with the claw’; Johnson: ‘perhaps, to strike the beak together.’
1611. Shaks., Cymb., V. iv. 118. His Royall Bird Prunes the immortall wing, and cloyes his Beake, As when his God is pleas’d.
Cloy v.3: see CLY.
