ppl. a. Obs. Also 4–6 clonged. Extended by-form of CLUNG ppl. a.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVI. xlvi. (1495), 568. Erthe bounde and clongyd [Helmingh. MS. clonge] togiders is a clotte.
1548. Udall, Erasm. Par. N. T., 120 b. She was in her body so shrounken and clonged together, that [etc.].
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb. (1586), 25 b. The Earth made clunged with the cold of winter.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 216. They doe to open their guts, which otherwise were clunged and growne togither. Ibid., I. 513. By the Northerne winds, be clunged and congealed withall.
1611. Cotgr., s.v. Peau, He is clungd, or hidebound.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., X. (1682), 442. My hungerclung’d Belly.
1658. Franck, North. Memoirs (1694), 177. A sort of feathers, that’s clung’d and twisted.
