nog

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A wooden block built into a masonry wall to hold nails that support joinery structures.
2. n. A wooden peg or pin.
3. n. Eggnog.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A wooden pin; specifically, in ship carpentry, a treenail driven through the heel of each shore that supports the ship on the slip.
2. n. One of the pins or combinations of pins and antifriction rollers in the lever of a clutch-coupling, attached to the inner sides of the bifurcations of the clutch-lever, and working in a groove turned in and entirely around the movable part of the clutch, for sliding the latter along the feather of the rotating shaft to engage it with its counterpart on the shaft to be rotated.
3. n. A brick-shaped piece of wood inserted in an internal wall; a timber-brick.
4. n. In mining, a cog; a square block of wood used to build up a chock or cog-pack for supporting the roof in a coal-mine.
5. n. plural The shank-bones.
6. In ship carpentry, to secure by a nog or treenail.
7. To fill with brickwork. See nogging.
8. n. A little pot; a mug; a noggin.
9. n. A kind of strong ale.

Wiktionary

1. n. A wooden block, the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.
2. n. One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.
3. n. A treenail to fasten the shores.
4. n. Short for noggin.
5. n. Short for eggnog.
6. n. Racial slur against African-Americans.
7. v. to fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork.
8. v. to fasten, as shores, with treenails.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A noggin.
2. n. A kind of strong ale.
3. n. eggnog.
4. n. A wooden block, of the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.
5. n. One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.
6. n. A treenail to fasten the shores.
7. v. To fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork.
8. v. To fasten, as shores, with treenails.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a wooden block built into a masonry wall so that joinery structure can be nailed to it
2. n. a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface