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Clog

//klɑɡ// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun

1
A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
"Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days."
2
a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps wordnet
3
A blockage.
"The plumber cleared the clog from the drain."
4
any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction wordnet
5
A shoe of any type. UK, colloquial
"I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clogs."

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6
footwear usually with wooden soles wordnet
7
A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
"Yet as a Dog committed close / For some offence, by chance breaks loose, / And quits his Clog; but all in vain, / He still draws after him his Chain."
8
That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
"The grand Conſpirator, Abbot of Weſtminster, / With clog of Conſcience, and ſowre Melancholly / Hath yeelded up his body to the graue;"

Verb

1
To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
"Hair is clogging the drainpipe."
2
fill to excess so that function is impaired wordnet
3
To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
"The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow."
4
coalesce or unite in a mass wordnet
5
To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
"The commodities […]are clogged with impositions."

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6
impede with a clog or as if with a clog wordnet
7
To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
"1973, Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Doerr, 123 N.J. Super. 530, 544, 303 A.2d 898. For centuries it has been the rule that a mortgagor’s equity of redemption cannot be clogged and that he cannot, as a part of the original mortgage transaction, cut off or surrender his right to redeem. Any agreement which does so is void and unenforceable as against public policy."
8
impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden wordnet
9
To perform a clog dance. intransitive
"And in a burst of Celtic drums and fiddles, a bosomy colleen with a jaunty green hat and suit jacket riverdanced onto the stage, clogging with a surprising degree of expertise, barely restrained breasts jiggling."
10
become or cause to become obstructed wordnet
11
dance a clog dance wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Unknown; perhaps from Middle English clog (“weight attached to the leg of an animal to impede movement”). Perhaps of North Germanic origin and derived from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“lump, mass, clasp”); compare Old Norse klugu, klogo (“knotty tree log”), Dutch klomp.

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