Crossword clues for clogging
clogging
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.
Clogging \Clog"ging\, n.
Anything which clogs.
--Dr. H. More.
Wiktionary
n. The situation of something being clogged. vb. (present participle of clog English)
WordNet
See clog
adj. preventing movement; "the clogging crowds of revelers overflowing into the street" [syn: hindering, impeding, obstructive]
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
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 has recently fused with others including African-American rhythms, and the Peruvian dance " zapateo" (which may in itself be derived from early European clog dances), resulting in the birth of newer street dances, such as tap, locking, jump, hakken, stomping, Gangsta Walking, and the Candy Walk dance. The use of wooden-soled clogs is rarer in the more modern dances since clog shoes are not commonly worn in urban society, and other types of footwear have replaced them in their evolved dance forms. Clogging is often considered the first form of street dance because it evolved in urban environments during the industrial revolution.
As the clogging style has evolved over the years, many localities have made contributions by adding local steps and rhythms to the style. The dance has origins in Wales and England. In the fifteenth century the all-wooden clog was replaced by a leather-topped shoe with a one-piece wooden bottom. By the 16th century a more conventional leather shoe with separate wooden pieces on the heel and toe called "flats" became popular, from where the terms "heel and toe" and "flatfooting" derive.
In later periods it was not always called "clogging", being known variously as foot-stomping, buck dancing, clog dancing, jigging, or other local terms. What all these had in common was emphasising the downbeat of the music by enthusiastic footwork. As for the shoes, many old clogging shoes had no taps and some were made of leather and velvet, while the soles of the shoes were either wooden or hard leather.
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.