Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Brickwork used to fill in the open spaces in a wall between studs or or other framing members.
- noun A short horizontal wooden beam used to strengthen upright posts in the framework of a wall.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In building, brickwork serving to fill the interstices between wooden quarters, especially in partitions.
- noun In ship carpentry, the act of securing the heels of the shores with treenails. See
nog .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Rough brick masonry used to fill in the interstices of a wooden frame, in building.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
nog . - noun A
horizontal beam used in the construction of a building, especially tostrengthen upright posts - noun Rough
brick masonry used to fill open spaces
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun rough brick masonry used to fill in the gaps in a wooden frame
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Not Blogging (otherwise known as nogging) « Squash
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I'm going to have put that in the old nogging and try to figure out what that means.....
Please do not drink my smoothie....it's medicinal. Elizabeth McClung 2007
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I'm afraid I couldn't stop laughing when I realised that the only apple to actually have fallen off the tree had managed to hit him right on the nogging!
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I'm afraid I couldn't stop laughing when I realised that the only apple to actually have fallen off the tree had managed to hit him right on the nogging!
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Scorched into my nogging Harry Chapin came from a lot of money, but he was driving a damn Ford Pinto.
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She was out "egg-nogging," as I used to call it, when Mrs. Sewall called.
The Fifth Wheel A Novel Olive Higgins Prouty 1928
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Tea at a tiny inn sunk in a dell through which a sleepy lane trickled between high banks -- tea in the pocket garden under sweet-smelling limes, where stocks stood orderly and honeysuckle sprawled over the brick-nogging, brought back old days of happy fellowship, just to outshine their memory.
Anthony Lyveden Dornford Yates 1922
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There were houses of brick-nogging, which derived their chief support from those adjoining.
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There were houses of brick-nogging, which derived their chief support from those adjoining.
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884
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She's in that stage where she takes some nasty spills about 5 times a day - the stage poor Shane-bug was stuck in for awhile because of his disproportionately large nogging.
Pho for Five 2008
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Not blogging (otherwise known as nogging)
April 3, 2013