CLOY, verb transitive 1. Strictly, to fill; to glut. Hence, to satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate. And as the appetite when satisfied rejects additional food, hence, to fill to lothing; to surfeit. Who can cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? 2. To spike up a gun; to drive a spike into the vent. 3. In farriery, to prick a horse in shoeing. [In the two latter senses, I believe the word is little used, and not at all in America.]
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI