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Clog vs Clod - What's the difference?

clog | clod |

As nouns the difference between clog and clod

is that clog is a type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel while clod is a lump of something, especially of earth or clay.

As verbs the difference between clog and clod

is that clog is to block or slow passage through (often with 'up') while clod is to pelt with clods.

clog

English

Noun

(en noun) (wikipedia clog)
  • A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
    • Dutch people rarely wear clog s these days.
  • A blockage.
    • The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.
  • (UK, colloquial) A shoe of any type.
  • * 1987 , :
    • Withnail: I let him in this morning. He lost one of his clog s.
  • A weight, such as a log or block of wood, attached to a person or animal to hinder motion.
  • * Hudibras
    • As a dog by chance breaks loose, / And quits his clog .
  • * Tennyson
    • A clog of lead was round my feet.
  • That which hinders or impedes motion; an encumbrance, restraint, or impediment of any kind.
  • * Burke
    • All the ancient, honest, juridical principles and institutions of England are so many clogs to check and retard the headlong course of violence and oppression.

    Derived terms

    * clogs to clogs in three generations * pop one's clogs

    Verb

  • To block or slow passage through (often with 'up' ).
    • Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
    The roads are clogged up with traffic.
  • To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper.
  • * Dryden
    • The wings of winds were clogged with ice and snow.
  • To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex.
  • * Addison
    • The commodities are clogged with impositions.
  • * Shakespeare
    • You'll rue the time / That clogs me with this answer.

    clod

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lump of something, especially of earth or clay.
  • * Milton
    • clods of iron and brass
  • * E. Fairfax
    • clods of blood
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The earth that casteth up from the plough a great clod', is not so good as that which casteth up a smaller ' clod .
  • * T. Burnet
    • this cold clod of clay which we carry about with us
  • * 2010 ,
    • "What a bunch of hooey," I said under my breath, tossing a dirt clod over my shoulder against the locked-up garden shed.
  • The ground; the earth; a spot of earth or turf.
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • the clod where once their sultan's horse has trod
  • A stupid person; a dolt.
    • (Dryden)
  • Part of a shoulder of beef, or of the neck piece near the shoulder.

    • Verb

    (clodd)
  • To pelt with clods.
    • (Jonson)
  • (Scotland) To throw violently; to hurl.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.
    • clodded gore
  • * G. Fletcher
    • Clodded in lumps of clay.
    (Webster 1913)

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