Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗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.
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.
Unknown; perhaps from Middle English clog (“weight attached to the leg of an animal to impede movement”). Perhaps of North Germanic origin and derived from Proto-Germanic *klumpô (“lump, mass, clasp”); compare Old Norse klugu, klogo (“knotty tree log”), Dutch klomp.
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