Clog
Definitions
- A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
- A blockage.
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A shoe of any type. UK, colloquial
- A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
- That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
Equivalents
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.”
“The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.”
“I let⟳ him in this morning. He lost one of his clogs.”
“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;”
“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.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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