clog

CLOG, verb transitive 1. To load or fill with something that retards or hinders motion; as, to clog the channel of a river; to clog a passage. 2. To put on any thing that encumbers, with a view to hinder or restrain leaping; to shackle; as, to clog a beast. 3. To load with any thing that encumbers; to burden; to embarrass; as, to clog commerce with impositions or restrictions. 4. To obstruct natural motion, or render it difficult; to hinder; to impede. CLOG, verb intransitive 1. To coalesce; to unite and adhere in a cluster or mass. Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together. 2. To form an accretion; to be loaded or encumbered with extraneous matter. The teeth of the saw will begin to clog CLOG, noun 1. Any thing put upon an animal to hinder motion, or leaping, as a piece of wood fastened to his leg. 2. An encumbrance; that which hinders motion, or renders it difficult; hindrance; impediment. 3. A wooden shoe; also, a sort of pattern worn by ladies to keep their feet dry in wet weather.