clegs

While Lavender had gone away over the heights and hollows to choose his point of view a rough and ready luncheon had been spread out in the wagonette, and when he returned, perspiring and considerably blown, he found old Mackenzie measuring out equal portions of peat-water and whisky, Duncan flicking the enormous "clegs" from off the horses 'necks, Ingram trying to persuade Sheila to have some sherry out of a flask he carried, and everybody in very good spirits over such an exciting event as a roadside luncheon on a summer forenoon.

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

"clegs" while you were too busy in playing a fifteen-pounder to care?

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various

And they like scampering beasts when clegs are fierce,

Georgian Poetry 1913-15 Edward Howard Marsh 1912

'Twarn't for crows then, for it brought the clegs and the dowps to him.

Dracula 1897

'Twarn't for crows then, for it brought the clegs and the dowps to him.

Dracula Bram Stoker 1879

He blew nigh the top of his head off with an old musket that they had for scarin’ crows with. ‘twarn’t for crows then, for it brought the clegs and the dowps to him.

Dracula 2003