Meaning of Clog | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
2. A blockage.
3. A shoe of any type.
   UK, colloquial
4. A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
5. That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.

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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.”

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