In message <01C405B2.99E8B9A0.emagar@hotkey.net.au>, Elizabeth Agar <emagar@hotkey.net.au> writes >Hi Martyn, > >To clog was to fasten a clog or heavy block of wood to; to fetter or >confine by this means. [OED] > >I can't find anything likely for ploged yet. I tried plugged which means >to stop but not really in the sense that fits the context. I think it is all a way of describing a fierce dog fruistrated from eating people - by a leather muzzle, a woodedn sort of but, or a plug of cotton waste or something - anyway, the beastie's savage teeth are disarmed - exce[ppt this one wasn't. And they said the laws about having Rotweilers muzzled were the first! (Mind you, hunting dogs found straying around royal or noble forests were lawed - had their claws and paws amputated or cut back. > -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society