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What (who) is Clog - definition

THICK-SOLED PROTECTIVE FOOTWEAR MADE OF WOOD

Wooden shoe; Cloggs; Clogs; Wooden shoes; Takunya; Clog (shoe); Clogmaker

Clog

·vi To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass.

II. Clog ·vi To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter.

III. Clog ·v A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion.

IV. Clog ·vt To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.

V. Clog ·v That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.

VI. Clog ·vt To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to Hamper.

VII. Clog ·vt To Burden; to Trammel; to Embarrass; to Perplex.

VIII. Clog ·v 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.

clog

I. v. a.

1.

Trammel, shackle, hamper, fetter, put a clog on.

2.

Obstruct, choke, choke up, stop up.

3.

Encumber, hinder, impede, hamper, embarrass, cumber, restrain, trammel, burden, load.

II. n.

1.

Trammel, fetter, shackle, drag-weight, dead-weight.

2.

Impediment, encumbrance, hindrance, obstacle, obstruction, check, drawback.

3.

Sabot, wooden shoe.

clog

¦ noun

1. a shoe with a thick wooden sole.

2. an obstacle or impediment.

¦ verb (clogs, clogging, clogged) (often clog up) block or become blocked.

Origin

ME (in the sense 'block of wood to impede an animal's movement'): of unknown origin.

Wikipedia

Clog

Clogs are a type of footwear made in part or completely from wood. Used in many parts of the world, their forms can vary by culture, but often remained unchanged for centuries within a culture.

Traditional clogs remain in use as protective footwear in agriculture and in some factories and mines. Although they are sometimes negatively associated with cheap and folkloric footwear of farmers and the working class, some types are considered fashion wear today, such as Swedish träskor or Japanese geta.

Clogs are also used in several different styles of dance, where an important feature is the sound they produce against the floor. Clog dancing is one of the fundamental roots of tap dancing, but with tap shoes the taps are free to click against each other and produce a different sound from clogs.

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Examples of use of Clog

1. On Saturdays, enormous traffic jams clog the narrow streets.

2. Trucks clog the narrow streets, their horns blaring.

3. But some can clog airways or trigger immune responses.

4. I‘ve been suffering from "blog clog" for some time.

5. Several airlines urged passengers to rebook flights online from their homes, rather than clog ticket counters.