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Definition of Pugging
1. n. The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc.
2. a. Thieving.
Definition of Pugging
1. pug [v] - See also: pug
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pugging
Literary usage of Pugging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1910)
"NJ Lately I have learned of a method employed to eliminate I lie laminations
developed in pugging very plastic clay—such for instance as slio\vn in Vol. ..."
2. Plaster and Plastering: Mortars and Cements, how to Make, and how to Use by Frederick Thomas Hodgson (1883)
"Boarding for pugging or Deafening, ALSO CALLED SOUND BOARDING.— Short boards
disposed transversely between the joists of floors to hold some substance ..."
3. Vitrified Paving Brick: A Review of Present Practice in the Manufacture by Herbert Allen Wheeler (1895)
"pugging.—The crushed clay or shale is next mixed and worked with water into a
plastic ... This pugging or tempering should be thoroughly done; to remove air ..."
4. Vitrified Paving Brick: A Review of Present Practice in the Manufacture by Herbert Allen Wheeler (1910)
"pugging.—The crushed and screened clay or shale is next mixed and worked with
... This pugging or tempering should be thoroughly done to remove air in- ..."
5. Notes on Building Construction: Arranged to Meet the Requirements of the by Henry Fidler, Great Britain Dept. of Science and Art (1891)
"B Plastering P Boarding . b pugging p Bridging joists bj Strutting s Ceiling
joists cj Templates t Fillets for sound boards / Trimmers T ..."
6. Notes on Building Construction: Arranged to Meet the Requirements of the by Percy Guillemard Llewellin] [Smith (1891)
"272 to 308) the parts are marked with the distinctive letters given below.
Binders . B Plastering P Boarding . b pugging Bridging joists ft/ Strutting ..."
7. Architectural Pottery: Bricks, Tiles, Pipes, Enamelled Terra-cottas ...by Léon Lefêvre by Léon Lefêvre (1900)
"Machines—Soaking, Shortening, pugging: Horse and Steam Pug-Mills, Rolling
Cylinders—Particulars of the Above Machines. Chapter III., Bricks: $ 1, ..."
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