[f. CLOG v.]

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  1.  The action of the verb CLOG; encumbering, obstruction, etc.; also concr. that which clogs.

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1647.  H. More, Song of Soul, II. ii. III. xxv. Truth doth … pierce, open, and disgregate All ascititious cloggings.

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1666.  Bunyan, Grace Ab., ¶ 164. 26. Such a Clogging and heat at my Stomach.

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1846.  Greener, Sci. Gunnery, 257. The ‘fouling’ and ‘clogging’ up of the barrel.

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  2.  a. The soling with wooden soles; b. The putting on of clogs (nonce-use).

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1640.  Wilmslow Churchw. Acc., in Earwaker, E. Cheshire (1877), I. 110. Paid for the clogginge of a paire of clogges for Manners Newton … iiijd.

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1824.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 226. Oh, the shawlings, the cloakings, the cloggings!

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