Clog /(klŏg)/

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.
    — Hudibras.
    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.
    — Harvey.

Phrases & Compounds
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

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.
  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.

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.