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clogging
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. footwear usually with wooden soles [syn: geta , patten , sabot ] any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction a dance performed while wearing clogs; has heavy stamping steps [syn: clog dance , clog dancing ] [also: clogging , clogged ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The situation of something being clogged. vb. (present participle of clog English)
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Clogging is a type of folk dance in which the dancer's footwear is used percussively by striking the heel, the toe, or both against a floor or each other to create audible rhythms, usually to the downbeat with the heel keeping the rhythm. The dance style ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clog \Clog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clogged (kl[o^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. Clogging .] To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper. The winds of birds were clogged with ace and snow. --Dryden. To obstruct so as to hinder motion ...
Usage examples of clogging.
The carriages, carts, barrows, sedan chairs and pedestrians were literally clogging the street, and progress slowed to a crawl.
Through the day they lingered, clogging the corridors, the courtyards and antechambers.
From that height he had a clear view of the execution site and of the citizens clogging the street before the prison gate.
She sipped a little of the brandy Harbord gave her, but her throat would keep clogging with tears.
The clogging moisture seemed to brood over the accursed earth, like some foul bird with deadly menace in wings and beak.
As he walked through the clogging dust he thought of one after another whom he had known before he had gone out of the world of free men and had bent his back under the hand of the law.
From that height he had a clear view of the execution site and of the citizens clogging the street before the prison gate.
And internally, the gazelle's system must be clogging up with the sugar that was a byproduct of the photosynthetic-like metabolic process that released oxygenit was what made gazelle flesh taste so sweet.