Pug
Pug , transitive verb
[Compare German 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.
Pug , noun
1.
Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.
2.
A pug mill.
Collocations (1)
Pug mill , a kind of mill for grinding and mixing clay, either for brickmaking or the fine arts; a clay mill. It consists essentially of an upright shaft armed with projecting knives, which is caused to revolve in a hollow cylinder, tub, or vat, in which the clay is placed.
Pug , noun
[Corrupted from puck. See Puck.]
1.
2.
A name for a monkey. [Colloquial] — Addison
3.
A name for a fox. [Provincial English] — C. Kingsley
4.
An intimate; a crony; a dear one. [Obsolete] — Lyly
5.
Chaff; the refuse of grain. [Obsolete] — Holland
6.
A prostitute. [Obsolete] — Cotgrave
7.
(Zoology) One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.
8.
(Zoology) Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.
Pug , noun
[Hind. pag foot.]
A footprint; a track; as of a boar. [India]