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Clog

noun

1.

Footwear usually with wooden soles. Synonyms: geta, patten, sabot.

2.

Any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction.

3.

A dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles; has heavy stamping steps. Synonyms: clog dance, clog dancing.

verb

(past & past part. clogged; pres. part. clogging)

1.

Become or cause to become obstructed. Synonyms: back up, choke, choke off, clog up, congest, foul. "The water pipe is backed up"

2.

Dance a clog dance.

3.

Impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden.

4.

Impede with a clog or as if with a clog. Synonym: constipate. "My mind is constipated today"

5.

Coalesce or unite in a mass. Synonym: clot.

6.

Fill to excess so that function is impaired. Synonym: overload. "The story was clogged with too many details"

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"Clog" Quotes from Famous Books

... yell of jubilation went up suddenly from two dozen throats and a pandemonium of joy ensued. The prisoners clog-danced and cheered and yodled and wrestled with one another in a sudden uprush of animal spirits. They even ran up the glass sides of the bowl as far as they could, and slid back to the bottom upon the natural cushions of their bodies. The tall man started ...

— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... whose haunts he must thread no more—for the keepers were grim bone-breakers enough in their way—and when they had gotten him on his back, one gouged him like a Yankee, and the other bit off his nose like a Bolton Trotter—and one smashed his os frontis with the nailed heel of a two-pound wooden clog, a Preston Purrer;—so that Master Allonby is now far from being a beauty, with a face of that description attached to a head wagging from side to side under a powerful palsy, while the Mandarin drinks damnation to the Lord of the Manor in a horn of eleemosynary ...

— Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 • John Wilson

... heat, but to escape the inconveniences that would otherwise arise through extreme cooling of the air during its expansion. Without preheating the expanding air becomes so cold as to be liable to deposit snow from the moisture held in suspension, and thereby to clog the valves. With preheating this is avoided, and the amount of work done by a given quantity of air is increased by the conversion into work of a part of the supplementary energy which the preheater supplies in the form of ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... cross; Twix' thy father's hoose an' mine, love, There's a vast o' slacks an' moss. But t' awd mare, shoo weant whemmle(1) Though there's twee on her back astride; Shoo's as prood as me, is Snowball, Noo I's fetchin' heame my bride. A weddin', a woo, A clog an' a shoe, A pot full o' porridge; ...

— Songs of the Ridings • F. W. Moorman

... picked up a pack of cards and began to do things with the deck that no mortal man ever saw before, while Bunch stood in the wings with his teeth chattering so loud they sounded like a pedestal clog accompaniment. ...

— You Can Search Me • Hugh McHugh

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