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A form of robust wooden shoe originating in the low countries, before it found forensic fame and fortune as an arcane metaphor in the courts of chancery, where one tries where possible to avoid [[Clog on the equity of redemption|clogs on the equity of redemption]].
Stout wooden shoes originating in the low countries. Unfashionable in the [[courts of chancery]], where one has always tried, where possible, to ''avoid'' [[Clog on the equity of redemption|clogs on the equity of redemption]]. Clogs — in French, ''les [[Sabotage|sabots]]'' — were more fashionable amongst 19th century Parisienne hand-weavers, but not for wearing so much as for throwing angrily into the gears of those new-fangled automatic [[Jacquard loom|looms invented by Joseph Jacquard]] with the goal of buggering them up, in a rather [[Cnut]]-like effort to save their livelihoods. Mischievous French clog-throwing became widespread for a time and was known as “''[[sabotage]]''”. Long-term, it didn’t do ''les saboteurs'' much good. You can’t fight progress.


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Clogs
/klɒgz/ (n.)

Stout wooden shoes originating in the low countries. Unfashionable in the courts of chancery, where one has always tried, where possible, to avoid clogs on the equity of redemption. Clogs — in French, les sabots — were more fashionable amongst 19th century Parisienne hand-weavers, but not for wearing so much as for throwing angrily into the gears of those new-fangled automatic looms invented by Joseph Jacquard with the goal of buggering them up, in a rather Cnut-like effort to save their livelihoods. Mischievous French clog-throwing became widespread for a time and was known as “sabotage”. Long-term, it didn’t do les saboteurs much good. You can’t fight progress.

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