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   clog

   /klɒɡ/

   noun

   • 1. a shoe with a thick wooden sole.
   • 2. an encumbrance or impediment: "they found the tax to be an unacceptable clog on the market"

   verb

   • 1. block or become blocked with an accumulation of thick, wet matter: "the gutters were clogged up with leaves"
   • ▪ fill up or crowd (something) so as to obstruct passage: "tourists' cars clog the roads into Cornwall"

   Word Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘block of wood to impede an animal's movement’): of unknown origin.

   Scrabble Points: 7

   • C

     3

   • L

     1

   • O

     1

   • G

     2

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