The winds of birds were clogged with ace and snow.
--Dryden.
2. To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke
up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.
3. 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.
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. --Burke.
2. 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. --Tennyson.
3. 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.
In working through the bone, the teeth of the saw
will begin to clog. --S. Sharp.
2. To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass.
Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog
not together. --Evelyn.