the.com/wooden clog

means A sturdy shoe carved or built from a wooden sole (sometimes wholly wooden), worn for its toughness against wet ground and rough work rather than for charm.

from Clog originally meant a lump or block of wood — in Middle English it described a heavy wooden log or chunk used to hobble an animal's leg. The sense shifted to footwear because the earliest clogs were literally thick wooden-soled shoes, blocky and log-like underfoot. Wooden clogs became a working-class staple across Europe, especially in the Netherlands and northern England, prized by farmers, fishermen, and millworkers for keeping feet dry and protected on wet floors and cobblestones.