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CLOG, v.t.

1. To load or fill with something that retards or hinders motion; as, to clog the channel of a river; to clog a passage.

2. To put on any thing that encumbers, with a view to hinder or restrain leaping; to shackle; as, to clog a beast.

3. To load with any thing that encumbers; to burden; to embarrass; as, to clog commerce with impositions or restrictions.

4. To obstruct natural motion, or render it difficult; to hinder; to impede.

CLOG, v.i.

1. To coalesce; to unite and adhere in a cluster or mass.

Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together.

2. To form an accretion; to be loaded or encumbered with extraneous matter.

The teeth of the saw will begin to clog.

CLOG, n.

1. Any thing put upon an animal to hinder motion, or leaping, as a piece of wood fastened to his leg.

2. An encumbrance; that which hinders motion, or renders it difficult; hindrance; impediment.

3. A wooden shoe; also, a sort of pattern worn by ladies to keep their feet dry in wet weather.


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CLOG, v.t.

1. To load or fill with something that retards or hinders motion; as, to clog the channel of a river; to clog a passage.

2. To put on any thing that encumbers, with a view to hinder or restrain leaping; to shackle; as, to clog a beast.

3. To load with any thing that encumbers; to burden; to embarrass; as, to clog commerce with impositions or restrictions.

4. To obstruct natural motion, or render it difficult; to hinder; to impede.

CLOG, v.i.

1. To coalesce; to unite and adhere in a cluster or mass.

Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together.

2. To form an accretion; to be loaded or encumbered with extraneous matter.

The teeth of the saw will begin to clog.

CLOG, n.

1. Any thing put upon an animal to hinder motion, or leaping, as a piece of wood fastened to his leg.

2. An encumbrance; that which hinders motion, or renders it difficult; hindrance; impediment.

3. A wooden shoe; also, a sort of pattern worn by ladies to keep their feet dry in wet weather.

CLOG, n.

  1. Any thing put upon an animal to hinder motion, or leaping, as a piece of wood fastened to his leg.
  2. An encumbrance; that which hinders motion, or renders it difficult; hindrance; impediment. Slavery is the greatest clog to speculation. – Swift.
  3. [Qu. Fr. claque; Sp. and Port. galocha; Arm. galoig.] A wooden shoe; also, a sort of patten worn by ladies to keep their feet dry in wet weather.

CLOG, v.i.

  1. To coalesce; to unite and adhere in a cluster or mass. Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together. – Evelyn.
  2. To form an accretion; to be loaded or encumbered with extraneous matter. The teeth of the saw will begin to clog. – Sharp.

CLOG, v.t. [W. cleg, a lump; clug, a swelling, roundness; clog, a large stone; lloc, a mound, a dam; llog, an augment; llogi, to make compact, to hire, L. loco; Ir. loc, a stop; locaim, to hinder. These coincide with Eng. lock, in primary sense, or may be from the same root. But clog, though of the same family, seems not to be directly derived from either of these words.]

  1. To load or fill with something that retards or hinders motion; as, to clog the channel of a river; to clog a passage.
  2. To put on any thing that encumbers, with a view to hinder or restrain leaping; to shackle; as, to clog a beast.
  3. To load with any thing that encumbers; to burden; to embarrass; as, to clog commerce with impositions or restrictions. – Addison.
  4. To obstruct natural motion, or render it difficult; to hinder; to impede.

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

    The winds of birds were clogged with ace and snow.
    Dryden.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.
  6. To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass.

    Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together.
    Evelyn.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

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Clog

CLOG, verb transitive

1. To load or fill with something that retards or hinders motion; as, to clog the channel of a river; to clog a passage.

2. To put on any thing that encumbers, with a view to hinder or restrain leaping; to shackle; as, to clog a beast.

3. To load with any thing that encumbers; to burden; to embarrass; as, to clog commerce with impositions or restrictions.

4. To obstruct natural motion, or render it difficult; to hinder; to impede.

CLOG, verb intransitive

1. To coalesce; to unite and adhere in a cluster or mass.

Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together.

2. To form an accretion; to be loaded or encumbered with extraneous matter.

The teeth of the saw will begin to clog

CLOG, noun

1. Any thing put upon an animal to hinder motion, or leaping, as a piece of wood fastened to his leg.

2. An encumbrance; that which hinders motion, or renders it difficult; hindrance; impediment.

3. A wooden shoe; also, a sort of pattern worn by ladies to keep their feet dry in wet weather.

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