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/klˈɑgɪŋ/ /klˈɔgɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Clogging n. Anything which clogs.

verb

Clog v. t. (past & past part. clogged; pres. part. clogging)

To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper. "The winds of birds were clogged with ace and snow."

To obstruct so as to hinder motion in or through; to choke up; as, to clog a tube or a channel.

To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex. "The commodities are clogged with impositions." "You 'll rue the time That clogs me with this answer."

Synonyms: Impede; hinder; obstruct; embarrass; burden; restrain; restrict.

Clog v. i.

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."

To coalesce or adhere; to unite in a mass. "Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together."

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Etymology of 'Clogging'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Clogging" Quotes from Famous Books

... been made than the earth on which the princess stood suddenly opened with a hissing noise, and swallowed her up. The king, struck with terror, and in great distress at the loss of his daughter, implored the saint to restore the princess. This petition the holy father granted, clogging it, however, with the condition, that thenceforward no woman should resort to him. From that time a woman was never seen approaching his place of seclusion; and more than that, the restriction was extended to all the Pictish churches ...

— The Mysteries of All Nations • James Grant

... nine riders. We mounted without a word and filed through a grove of trees to where a broken paling marked the beginning of cultivated land. There for the matter of twenty minutes Hussin chose to guide us through deep, clogging snow. He wanted to avoid any sound till we were well beyond earshot of the house. Then we struck a by-path which presently merged in a hard highway, running, as I judged, south-west by west. There we delayed no longer, but galloped ...

— Greenmantle • John Buchan

... prayer-books. Ah! if one could but see clearly, with eyes purged from every remnant of earthliness,—see as the angels do,—the thick fog of unrisen and unprayed prayers clinging to the rafters of every empty church, we might well shudder in the clogging ...

— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... approached I could hear sounds of altercation and a voice that we placed immediately as that of our quarry arose in indignant warning: "If yo' doan' leggo that mess-kit I'll lay a barrage down on yo'!" A platform was improvised near a blazing fire of pine boards and we had some excellent clogging and singing. The big basso had evidently a strong feeling for his steel helmet, and it undoubtedly added to his picturesqueness—setting off his features with his teeth and eyes gleaming in ...

— War in the Garden of Eden • Kermit Roosevelt

... before the altar and took the vows of faithfulness to Mr. Leroy Edson. I knew you fancied that you loved him, and thought in the wild potency of your passion to bear him skyward on your soaring pinions; but, ah! I saw how sadly his clogging weight would drag ...

— Eventide - A Series of Tales and Poems • Effie Afton

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