clog
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: law
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: clogs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: clogs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: clogging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: clogged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: clogged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
pos: noun
examples: Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days.
[…] as to the poor—just look at them when they come crowding about the church-doors on the occasion of a marriage or a funeral, clattering in clogs; […]
She stomped up the stairs. Her clogs slammed against the pine boards of the staircase and shook the house.
gloss: A blockage.
pos: noun
examples: The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
gloss: A shoe of any type.
pos: noun
tags: UK
colloquial
examples: I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clogs.
gloss: A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
A clog of lead was round my feet / A band of pain across my brow;
gloss: That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
pos: noun
examples: The grand Conſpirator, Abbot of Weſtminster, / With clog of Conſcience, and ſowre Melancholly / Hath yeelded up his body to the graue;
All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England, are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.
By the same rule, they must send your mamma her travelling expences, miss; she can't have the clog of a couple of grown daughters at her heels without money in her pocket.
If we were as rich as your uncle, I should feel it to be both a duty and a pleasure to keep an elegant table; but limited means are a sad clog to one’s wishes.
gloss: To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
pos: verb
examples: Around 25 million pounds of used Mardi Gras beads are thrown away every year. Several years ago, in 2018, 46 tons of them clogged New Orleans' storm drains after heavy flooding.
Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
The roads are clogged up with traffic.
gloss: To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
pos: verb
examples: The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.
gloss: To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
pos: verb
examples: The commodities […]are clogged with impositions.
You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer.
gloss: To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
gloss: To perform a clog dance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
Derived words: beclog
clever clogs
clog almanac
clog dance
clogless
cloglike
clogmaker
clogmaking
clogs to clogs in three generations
clog wog
clogwood
pop one's clogs
shot-clog
Yule clog
clogger
anticlog
cloggable
cloggy
clogosphere
clog up
declog
nonclogging
reclog
unclog
uncloggable
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