CLOG

clog

(noun) any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction

clog, geta, patten, sabot

(noun) footwear usually with wooden soles

clog, overload

(verb) fill to excess so that function is impaired; “Fear clogged her mind”; “The story was clogged with too many details”

clog, clot

(verb) coalesce or unite in a mass; “Blood clots”

clog, constipate

(verb) impede with a clog or as if with a clog; “The market is being clogged by these operations”; “My mind is constipated today”

clog

(verb) impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden; “horses were clogged until they were tamed”

clog, choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke, foul

(verb) become or cause to become obstructed; “The leaves clog our drains in the Fall”; “The water pipe is backed up”

clog

(verb) dance a clog dance

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

clog (plural clogs)

A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.

A blockage.

(UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.

A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.

That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.

Verb

clog (third-person singular simple present clogs, present participle clogging, simple past and past participle clogged)

To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').

To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.

To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.

(legal) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.

(intransitive) To perform a clog dance.

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Source: Wiktionary

Clog, n. Etym: [OE. clogge clog, Scot. clag, n., a clot, v., to to obstruct, cover with mud or anything adhesive; prob. of the same origin as E. clay.]

1. That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind. All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and opression. Burke.

2. A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion. As a dog . . . but chance breaks loose, And quits his clog. Hudibras. A clog of lead was round my feet. Tennyson.

3. A shoe, or sandal, intended to protect the feet from wet, or to increase the apparent stature, and having, therefore, a very thick sole. Cf. Chopine. In France the peasantry goes barefoot; and the middle sort . . . makes use of wooden clogs. Harvey. Clog almanac, a primitive kind of almanac or calendar, formerly used in England, made by cutting notches and figures on the four edges of a clog, or square piece of wood, brass, or bone; -- called also a Runic staff, from the Runic characters used in the numerical notation.

– Clog dance, a dance performed by a person wearing clogs, or thick-soled shoes.

– Clog dancer.

Clog, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clogged; p. pr. & vb. n. Clogging.]

1. To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper. The winds of birds were clogged with ace and snow. Dryden.

2. To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.

3. To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex. The commodities are clogged with impositions. Addison. You 'll rue the time That clogs me with this answer. Shak.

Syn.

– Impede; hinder; obstruct; embarrass; burden; restrain; restrict.

Clog, v. i.

1. To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter. In working through the bone, the teeth of the saw will begin to clog. S. Sharp.

2. To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass. Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together. Evelyn.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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