Crossword clues for clog
clog
- Plumbing obstruction
- Drain pain
- Tub trouble
- Target of a plumber's snake
- Liquid-Plumr target
- Cause of a backup
- Basin blocker
- Thick-soled wooden shoe
- Stuff up
- Snake's target, perhaps
- Sink stoppage
- Sink nuisance
- Sink jam-up
- Reason to use a snake
- Noisy shoe
- Kind of slipper
- Drain woe
- Drain bane
- Dancer's shoe
- Wood-sole shoe
- Water inhibitor
- Use a deuce to stop a flush?
- Stuffed-drain problem
- Stoppage that a plumber might fix
- Something attacked by a snake?
- Slip-on shoe from Dansko or Crocs
- Sink obstruction
- Shoe with a wooden sole
- Shoe or its dance
- Shoe for a certain dance
- Relative of a tap dance
- Potential cause of a backed-up sink
- Plumbing stop-up
- Plumbing snake's target
- Plumbing blockage
- Plumbers' favorite dance?
- Plumber's target
- Plebeian in footwear line
- Pipe blocker
- Overflow cause
- Keep from draining
- Job for Roto-Rooter
- Get stopped up, as a drain
- Get stopped up
- Footwear used in Kentucky's state dance
- Folk dancer's shoe
- Drain trouble
- Drain stoppage
- Drain issue
- Drain backup cause
- Dancing shoe
- Dance for plumbers?
- Bung up
- Blockage in a water pipe
- Block the pipes
- Become blocked, ... up
- Bathtub trouble
- Bathtub blockage
- Basin obstruction
- Bane of a drain
- Smart alec
- Stop up
- Stop (up)
- Block up
- Drain problem
- Folk dancer's shoe, perhaps
- Flow stopper
- Plunger's target
- Drano target
- Blockage in a drain
- Thick-soled shoe
- Job for a drain cleaner
- Backup cause, often
- Footwear that's hard to run in
- What paper towels do to a toilet
- Cousin of a 55-Down
- Jam up
- Job for a snake
- Pipe problem
- Drain cleaner target
- Plumbing problem that might require a snake
- Traffic problem
- Gutter problem
- Target for a snake
- Stopping point
- Put a stop to?
- Footwear usually with wooden soles
- Any object that acts as a hindrance or obstruction
- Kind of dance
- Gum up
- Wooden-soled shoe
- Country dance
- Obstruct
- Plug up
- Choke up
- Heavy-shoe dance
- Hamper
- Patten
- Hindrance
- Encumber
- Shoe of a sort
- Wooden shoe
- After competition's opening, enter jam
- Block of wood supporting edge of cupboard
- Dutch shoe
- Drain obstruction
- Type of shoe
- Lively dance
- Heavy shoe
- Back up
- Type of dance
- Stop running
- Drain blockage
- Job for a plumber
- Plumber's challenge
- Problem for a plumber
- Snake target
- Wooden footwear
- Sink-drain problem
- Reason to call Roto-Rooter
- Roto-Rooter target
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clog \Clog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Clogged (kl[o^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. Clogging.]
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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 in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.
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To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
The commodities are clogged with impositions.
--Addison.You 'll rue the time That clogs me with this answer.
--Shak.Syn: Impede; hinder; obstruct; embarrass; burden; restrain; restrict.
Clog \Clog\ (kl[o^]g), n. [OE. clogge clog, Scot. clag, n., a clot, v., to to obstruct, cover with mud or anything adhesive; prob. of the same origin as E. clay.]
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That which hinders or impedes motion; hence, an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment, of any kind.
All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and opression.
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A weight, as a log or block of wood, attached to a man or an animal to hinder motion.
As a dog . . . but chance breaks loose, And quits his clog.
--Hudibras.A clog of lead was round my feet.
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A shoe, or sandal, intended to protect the feet from wet, or to increase the apparent stature, and having, therefore, a very thick sole. Cf. Chopine.
In France the peasantry goes barefoot; and the middle sort . . . makes use of wooden clogs.
--Harvey.Clog almanac, a primitive kind of almanac or calendar, formerly used in England, made by cutting notches and figures on the four edges of a clog, or square piece of wood, brass, or bone; -- called also a Runic staff, from the Runic characters used in the numerical notation.
Clog dance, a dance performed by a person wearing clogs, or thick-soled shoes.
Clog dancer.
Clog \Clog\, v. i.
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To become clogged; to become loaded or encumbered, as with extraneous matter.
In working through the bone, the teeth of the saw will begin to clog.
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To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass.
Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together.
--Evelyn.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., clogge "a lump of wood," origin unknown. Also used in Middle English of large pieces of jewelry and large testicles. Compare Norwegian klugu "knotty log of wood." Meaning "anything that impedes action" is from 1520s. The sense of "wooden-soled shoe" is first recorded late 14c.; they were used as overshoes until the introduction of rubbers c.1840. Originally all wood (hence the name), later wooden soles with leather uppers for the front of the foot only. Later revived in fashion (c.1970), primarily for women. Clog-dancing is attested from 1863.
late 14c., "hinder," originally by fastening a block of wood to something, from clog (n.). Meaning "choke up with extraneous matter" is 17c. Related: Clogged; clogging.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel. 2 A blockage. 3 (context UK colloquial English) 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. vb. 1 To block or slow passage through (''often with 'up'''). 2 To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper. 3 To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
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]
v. become or cause to become obstructed; "The leaves clog our drains in the Fall"; "The water pipe is backed up" [syn: choke off, clog up, back up, congest, choke, foul] [ant: unclog]
dance a clog dance
impede the motion of, as with a chain or a burden; "horses were clogged until they were tamed"
impede with a clog or as if with a clog; "The market is being clogged by these operations"; "My mind is constipated today" [syn: constipate]
coalesce or unite in a mass; "Blood clots" [syn: clot]
fill to excess so that function is impaired; "Fear clogged her mind"; "The story was clogged with too many details" [syn: overload]
Wikipedia
A clog is a shoe with a rigid, often wooden, sole.
Clog may also refer to:
- Clog (British), a wooden-soled clog from Great Britain
- C.L.O.G., a clogging organization
- Clogs (band), an Australian music group
- Clog, a blockage in plumbing
- Clog, a British brand of rock-climbing equipment owned by Wild Country (company)
- "Clogs", an episode of the television series Teletubbies
Clogs are a type of footwear made in part or completely from wood. Clogs are used worldwide and although the form may vary by culture, within a culture the form often remained unchanged for centuries.
Traditional clogs remain in use as protective footwear in agriculture and in some factories and mines. Although clogs are sometimes negatively associated with cheap and folkloric footwear of farmers and the working class, some types of clogs are considered as fashion wear today, such as Swedish Träskor or Japanese geta.
Clogs are also used in several different styles of dance. When worn for dancing an important feature is the sound of the clog against the floor. This is one of the fundamental roots of tap, but with the tap shoes the taps are free to click against each other and produce different sound to clogs.
A British clog is a wooden soled clog from Great Britain.
Usage examples of "clog".
Silverbugs still wandered about aimlessly, clogging the floor, making it difficult to move fast over the already-unsure footing.
She adjusted her hat, an open velveteen circlet clogged with stiff net veiling, which had been spun askew by the collision with her husband.
The huge cloud of humid air that hung perpetually above the Astel Marshes lapped against the eastern slopes of the Mountains of Zemoch, unloosing phenomenal snowfalls that buried the forests and clogged the passes.
This in turn raises the likelihood that cholesterol will clog arteries, a condition known as atherosclerosis, which then increases risk of coronary artery disease, heart attack, and untimely death.
XXV Life had begun to move again, with slow, clogged wheels, in the Ca' Giustiniani since that sudden favorable change had come to the Lady Marina.
They lived under the deadly shadow of the upas tree, and suffered the consequences of its stunting their development in all directions, as the ague-smitten inhabitant of the Roman Campana finds every sense and every muscle clogged by the filtering in of the insidious miasma.
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.
It fitted his moods and temperaments like an old leather glove, calming him during troubled times, energizing him when weariness threatened to clog his brain, and gently stroking him when the depressions struck.
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There is a comparable filaria that infects man and clogs up the lymphatic ducts.