Meaning

A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel..

Definitions by Sense

1. A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
2. A blockage.
3. (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
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.
6. To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
7. To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
8. To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.

Example Sentences

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;

Word Forms

• clogs
• clogging
• clogged

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