cleg

1. (now dialectal) A light breeze.dialectal

2. (Scotland, England dialect) A blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae; a gadfly, a horsefly.Examples: "Sir Christopher Pack did cleave like a clegg, and was very angry he could not be heard ad infinitum."; "Now that was in summer, the time of fleas and glegs and golochs in the fields, when stirks would start up from a drowsy cud-chewing to a wild a feckless racing, the glegs biting through hair and hide to the skin below the tail-rump."; "The clegs continue to swarm all around. I wonder how many there are.[…]Remaining seated on the block, I seize clegs out of the surrounding air at random, and with scissors cut out a tiny triangle from the rear edge of each one's right wing before releasing it."Synonyms: blind-fly, deer fly, gadfly, horsefly, tabanidEnglandScotlanddialectal