v. 1
To block or slow passage through (often with 'up').
Hair is clogging the drainpipe.
n. 1
A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel.
Dutch people rarely wear clogs these days.
n. 2
A blockage.
The plumber cleared the clog from the drain.

Related words

Forms

Plural: clogs → pattens, sabots, getas, obstructions…
Past participle: clogged
e.g. clogged → obstructed, impeded, choked, hampered…

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

4 letters: load¹, drag¹, shoe¹, foul¹, skid¹, clot¹, glut¹, geta
5 letters: check¹, choke¹, cramp¹, sabot
6 letters: burden², hinder², hamper², impede², patten², hobble², fetter², cumber², enclog
7 letters: stopper², shackle², trammel², congest²
8 letters: obstacle³, overload³, restrain², obstruct², encumber³, oppilate
9 letters: embarrass³, hindrance²
10 letters: impediment⁴, constipate³
11 letters: obstruction³, encumbrance

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (burden² = 2 syllables).