clog
noun
[ klɒɡ ]
• a shoe with a thick wooden sole.
Similar:
sabot,
wooden shoe,
wooden-soled shoe,
• an encumbrance or impediment.
• "they found the tax to be an unacceptable clog on the market"
clog
verb
• block or become blocked with an accumulation of thick, wet matter.
• "the gutters were clogged up with leaves"
Similar:
block,
obstruct,
congest,
jam,
choke,
bung up,
dam (up),
plug,
silt up,
stop up,
seal,
fill up,
close,
gunge up,
occlude,
obturate,
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘block of wood to impede an animal's movement’): of unknown origin.
