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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. -- Clog
dancer.


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