clog

Meanings

Noun

• A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
• A blockage.
• A shoe of any type.
• A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
• That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.

Verb

• To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
• To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
• To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
• To enforce a mortgage lender right that prevents a borrower from exercising a right to redeem.
• To perform a clog dance.

Origin

• Unknown; perhaps from Middle English clog ("weight attached to the leg of an animal to impede movement"). Perhaps of North Germanic origin; compare Old Norse klugu, klogo, klomp.