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pugging |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pugging \Pug"ging\, a. Thieving. [Obs.] --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pug \Pug\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pugged}; p. pr & vb n. {Pugging}.] [Cf. G. pucken to thump. beat.] 1. To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc 2. To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See {Pugging}, 2. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pugging \Pug"ging\, n. [See {Pug}, v. t.] 1. The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc 2. (Arch.) Mortar or the like laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; -- in the United States usually called {deafening}.
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