Cloy \Cloy\ (kloi), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cloyed} (kloid); p. pr. & vb. n. {Cloying}.] [OE. cloer to nail up, F. clouer, fr. OF. clo nail, F. clou, fr. L. clavus nail. Cf. 3d {Clove}.] 1. To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obs.]
The duke's purpose was to have cloyed the harbor by sinking ships, laden with stones. --Speed.
2. To glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate; to fill to loathing; to surfeit.
[Who can] cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? --Shak.
He sometimes cloys his readers instead of satisfying. --Dryden.
3. To penetrate or pierce; to wound.
Which, with his cruel tusk, him deadly cloyed. --Spenser.