Clog

; perhaps from . Perhaps of origin; compare , klogo,

Transactions of the Philological Society. (1899). United Kingdom: Society, p. 657

Full definition of 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.

Charlotte Bronte Shirley|chapter=15|passage=... as to the poorâ€”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,^{https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780786245970}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.
A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.

Butler Hudibras|part=2|canto=3|passage=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, â€œThe Lettersâ€ in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, p.115,^{https://archive.org/details/maudotherpoems00tennuoft}A clog of lead was round my feet
A band of pain across my brow;

That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.

Shakespeare Richard 2|act=V|scene=vi|page=45|passage=The grand ConÅ¿pirator, Abbot of WeÅ¿tminster,
With clog of ConÅ¿cience, and Å¿owre Melancholly
Hath yeelded up his body to the graue;
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,^{http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004804912.0001.000}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.
Gaskell Wives and Daughters|chapter=56|passage=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 oneâ€™s wishes.

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.

Dryden Metamorphoses|passage=The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.

Addison ItalyThe commodities ...are clogged with impositions.
Shakespeare Macbeth|III|vi|passage=You'll rue the time
That clogs me with this answer.

(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 mortgagorâ€™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 as against public policy.

2014, Jeff Abbott, Cut and Run, And in a burst of Celtic drums and fiddles, a bosomy colleen with a jaunty green hat and suit jacket riverdanced onto the stage, clogging with a surprising degree of expertise, barely restrained breasts jiggling.