See note s.v. cly, "net, snare".
Inasmuch as this is a "circular fishing net", a figurative use of the meaning of the homograph "afterbirth" is not excluded. The first millennium assumed spelling of the first syllable in Akkadian with "a" (see DJBA) is irrelevant, given first millennium Akkadian orthographic practice.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJBA: 804bDrower/Macuch: 326b, 312a, 331b, 29a