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Clog   /klɑg/   Listen
noun
Clog  n.  
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."
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." "A clog of lead was round my feet."
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."
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.


verb
Clog  v. t.  (past & past part. clogged; pres. part. clogging)  
1.
To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper. "The winds of birds were clogged with ace and snow."
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." "You 'll rue the time That clogs me with this answer."
Synonyms: 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."
2.
To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass. "Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together."





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... yell of jubilation went up suddenly from two dozen throats and a pandemonium of joy ensued. The prisoners clog-danced and cheered and yodled and wrestled with one another in a sudden uprush of animal spirits. They even ran up the glass sides of the bowl as far as they could, and slid back to the bottom upon the natural cushions of their bodies. The tall man started ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... whose haunts he must thread no more—for the keepers were grim bone-breakers enough in their way—and when they had gotten him on his back, one gouged him like a Yankee, and the other bit off his nose like a Bolton Trotter—and one smashed his os frontis with the nailed heel of a two-pound wooden clog, a Preston Purrer;—so that Master Allonby is now far from being a beauty, with a face of that description attached to a head wagging from side to side under a powerful palsy, while the Mandarin drinks damnation to the Lord of the Manor in a horn of eleemosynary ...
— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson
... heat, but to escape the inconveniences that would otherwise arise through extreme cooling of the air during its expansion. Without preheating the expanding air becomes so cold as to be liable to deposit snow from the moisture held in suspension, and thereby to clog the valves. With preheating this is avoided, and the amount of work done by a given quantity of air is increased by the conversion into work of a part of the supplementary energy which the preheater supplies in the form of ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... cross; Twix' thy father's hoose an' mine, love, There's a vast o' slacks an' moss. But t' awd mare, shoo weant whemmle(1) Though there's twee on her back astride; Shoo's as prood as me, is Snowball, Noo I's fetchin' heame my bride. A weddin', a woo, A clog an' a shoe, A pot full o' porridge; ...
— Songs of the Ridings • F. W. Moorman
... picked up a pack of cards and began to do things with the deck that no mortal man ever saw before, while Bunch stood in the wings with his teeth chattering so loud they sounded like a pedestal clog accompaniment. ...
— You Can Search Me • Hugh McHugh


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