Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Cloy

Cloy (kloi) , transitive verb

[Old English cloer to nail up, French clouer, from Old French clo nail, French clou, from Latin clavus nail. Compare 3d Clove.]

1.
To fill or choke up; to stop up; to clog. [Obsolete]
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? — Shakespeare
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
He never shod horse but he cloyed him. — Bacon
4.
To spike, as a cannon. [Obsolete] — Johnson
5.
To stroke with a claw. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare