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.

As a dog . . . but chance breaks loose,
And quits his clog.
Hudibras.

A clog of lead was round my feet.
Tennyson.

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.

The winds of birds were clogged with ace and snow.
Dryden.

The commodities are clogged with impositions.
Addison.

You 'll rue the time
That clogs me with this answer.
Shak.

Syn. -- Impede; hinder; obstruct; embarrass; burden; restrain; restrict.

In working through the bone, the teeth of the saw will begin to clog.
S. Sharp.

Move it sometimes with a broom, that the seeds clog not together.
Evelyn.