Definition of "cleg"
cleg
noun
plural clegs
(Scotland, England dialect) A blood-sucking fly of the family Tabanidae; a gadfly, a horsefly.
Quotations
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.
1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 39
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.
1998, V. K. Riabitsev, One Season in the Taiga, page 138