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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}.