Cly

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A pocket.
  • noun. Goose-grass.
  • Word Usage
    "Effondrer, to thrash a man, to give him what for; otolondrer, to annoy or to "spur" him; cambrioler, doing anything in a room; aubert, money; Gironde, a beauty (the name of a river of Languedoc); fouillousse, a pocket -- a "cly" -- are all French of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries."