clogging

English

Verb

clogging

1. present participle and gerund of clog

Noun

clogging (plural cloggings)

1. The situation of something being clogged.
   • 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