clogging

English

Verb

clogging

1. present participle and gerund of clog

Noun

clogging (plural cloggings)

1. The situation of something being clogged.
   • 1957 October, “Modification of "West Country" Class Pacific”, in Railway Magazine, page 731:

     This feature has been found effective in reducing injector trouble, resulting either from the clogging of sieves or the choking of the annular orifices of the injectors by fine particles of coal.

   • 2002, M. Henze, Wastewater Treatment: Biological and Chemical Processes:

     The biofilm is allowed to develop uninhibited which leads to local cloggings.

2. The material that clogs or obstructs.
   • 1839, British Farmer's Magazine, volume 3, page 187:

     No cloggings, lumps of dirt, or underlocks should be suffered to be rolled up with the fleece, as such a practice is unfair to the purchaser, and by act of parliament there is a heavy penalty attached to those who are convicted of doing it.

Derived terms

• anticlogging
• nonclogging

Anagrams

• coggling