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1. | 1. Robust wooden shoes originating in the low countries. Unfashionable in the [[courts of chancery]], where one tries where possible to ''avoid'' [[Clog on the equity of redemption|clogs on the equity of redemption]]. Clogs were more fashionable amongst 19th century Parisienne weavers — who called them ''les [[Sabotage|sabots]]'' — but not so much for wearing as throwing angrily into the gears of a new-fangled automatic [[Jacquard loom|looms invented by Joseph Jacquard]] to bugger them up, in a rather [[Cnut]]-like effort to save their livelihoods. Such mischievous French clog-throwing became widespread for a time and was known as “''[[sabotage]]''”. Long-term, didn’t do ''les saboteurs'' much good. You can’t fight progress. | ||
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Clogs
/klɒgz/ (n.)
1. Robust wooden shoes originating in the low countries. Unfashionable in the courts of chancery, where one tries where possible to avoid clogs on the equity of redemption. Clogs were more fashionable amongst 19th century Parisienne weavers — who called them les sabots — but not so much for wearing as throwing angrily into the gears of a new-fangled automatic looms invented by Joseph Jacquard to bugger them up, in a rather Cnut-like effort to save their livelihoods. Such mischievous French clog-throwing became widespread for a time and was known as “sabotage”. Long-term, didn’t do les saboteurs much good. You can’t fight progress.