clog
Pronunciation Noun
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.005
Pronunciation Noun
clog (plural clogs)
- A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
- Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days.
- 1849, Charlotte Brontë, Shirley (novel), Chapter 15,
- […] 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;
- 2002, Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones, Waterville, ME: Thorndike Press, Chapter 5, p. 92,
- She stomped up the stairs. Her clogs slammed against the pine boards of the staircase and shook the house.
- A blockage.
- The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
- (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
- 1987, Withnail and I:
- Withnail: I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clogs.
- 1987, Withnail and I:
- A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
- 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part 2, Canto 3, p. 329,
- 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.
- 1855, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “The Letters” in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, p. 115,
- A clog of lead was round my feet
- A band of pain across my brow;
- 1684, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part 2, Canto 3, p. 329,
- That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
- circa 1595 William Shakespeare, Richard II (play), Act V, Scene 6,
- The grand conspirator, Abbot of Westminster,
- With clog of conscience and sour melancholy
- Hath yielded up his body to the grave;
- 1777, Edmund Burke, A Letter from Edmund Burke: Esq; one of the representatives in Parliament for the city of Bristol, to John Farr and John Harris, Esqrs. sheriffs of that city, on the Affairs of America, London: J. Dodsley, p. 8,
- 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.
- 1865, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter 56,
- 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.
- circa 1595 William Shakespeare, Richard II (play), Act V, Scene 6,
- French: bouchon
- German: hemmen, verstopfen
- Italian: intasamento, ostruzione, tappo
- Portuguese: obstrução
- Russian: засо́р
- Spanish: bloqueo, obstrucción
- Russian: препя́тствие
clog (clogs, present participle clogging; past and past participle clogged)
- To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
- Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
- The roads are clogged up with traffic.
- To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
- The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.
- To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
- 1705 (revised 1718), Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
- The commodities […] are clogged with impositions.
- c. 1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene vi]:
- You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer.
- 1705 (revised 1718), Joseph Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy
- (legal) To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
- 1973, Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Doerr, 123 N.J. Super. 530, 544, 303 A.2d 898.
- For centuries it has been the rule that a mortgagor’s equity of redemption cannot be clogged and that he cannot, as a part of the original mortgage transaction, cut off or surrender his right to redeem. Any agreement which does so is void and unenforceable
[ sic] as against public policy.
- For centuries it has been the rule that a mortgagor’s equity of redemption cannot be clogged and that he cannot, as a part of the original mortgage transaction, cut off or surrender his right to redeem. Any agreement which does so is void and unenforceable
- 1973, Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Doerr, 123 N.J. Super. 530, 544, 303 A.2d 898.
- (intransitive) To perform a clog dance.
- French: boucher
- German: verstopfen
- Italian: intasare, ostruire, bloccare, otturare
- Portuguese: entupir, obstruir
- Russian: забива́ть
- Spanish: obstruir, azolvar, bloquear, congestionar, atascar, atorar
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.005