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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

... burners of the older types had disadvantages in that they were so designed that there was a tendency for the nozzle to clog with sludge or coke formed from the oil by the heat, without means of being readily cleaned. This has been overcome in the more ...

— Steam, Its Generation and Use • Babcock & Wilcox Co.

... as to the beauties of an autumn sunrise. A clear morning had ceased to arouse in him the old buoyant energy, and he had lost the zest of muscular exertion which had done so much to sweeten his labour in the fields. It was as if a clog fettered his simplest no less than his greatest emotion; and his enjoyment of nature had grown dull and spiritless, like his affection for his family. With his sisters he was aware that a curious constraint had become apparent, and it was no longer possible for him to meet ...

— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow

... remembered his former experiences. He placed the trap between his hind legs, with a hind paw on each spring, and pressed down with all his weight. But it was not enough. He dragged off the trap and its clog, and went clanking up the mountain. Again and again he tried to free his foot, but in vain, till he came where a great trunk crossed the trail a few feet from the ground. By chance, or happy thought, he reared again under this ...

— The Biography of a Grizzly • Ernest Seton-Thompson

... use of the shortest, tersest sentences to express the absolutely essential. Dependent clauses disappear; either the sentences are simple, just one sharp statement, or they are made of coordinate clauses with no connectives. Every weight that could clog the story is thrown away, and it runs with the swiftness of the thought. At such a time it would be a waste of good material to introduce beautiful descriptions or profound philosophy. Such things would be skipped ...

— English: Composition and Literature • W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

... she had done so that she might better turn round and look into his face. "Oh, my own one, who can say of himself that it would be so? How could it be so, when you would have all the world against you? You would still be what you are,—with a clog round your leg while at home. In Parliament, among your friends, at your clubs, you would be just what you are. You would be that Lord Silverbridge who had all good things at his disposal,—except that he had ...

— The Duke's Children • Anthony Trollope

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