Hypertext Webster Gateway: "pugging"
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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