Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Brickwork used to fill in the open spaces in a wall between studs or or other framing members.
- n. A short horizontal wooden beam used to strengthen upright posts in the framework of a wall.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In building, brickwork serving to fill the interstices between wooden quarters, especially in partitions.
- n. In ship carpentry, the act of securing the heels of the shores with treenails. See nog.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of nog.
- n. A horizontal beam used in the construction of a building, especially to strengthen upright posts
- n. Rough brick masonry used to fill open spaces
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Rough brick masonry used to fill in the interstices of a wooden frame, in building.
WordNet 3.0
- n. rough brick masonry used to fill in the gaps in a wooden frame
Etymologies
- From nog1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Not Blogging (otherwise known as nogging) « Squash”
“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!”
“I'm going to have put that in the old nogging and try to figure out what that means.....”
“Scorched into my nogging Harry Chapin came from a lot of money, but he was driving a damn Ford Pinto.”
“She was out "egg-nogging," as I used to call it, when Mrs. Sewall called.”
“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.”
“There were houses of brick-nogging, which derived their chief support from those adjoining.”
“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.”
“Brick may be of hard-burned clay, sand lime or gva»tyof cement and, except for nogging, fire-stopping and non-bearing or curtain walls not exposed to the weather, shall be hard and strong, of quality approved as satisfactory by the com - missioner.”
Internet Archive: Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
“or a bouncy nun to put them over her latex clad knee and give them a proper spanking whilst telling them they've been very, very naughty. who can tell? i especially like the one fellow in the long red dress, er, robes as he dives toward the other character only to get a punch in the nogging from a burly copper.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘nogging’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Some Ship-building Terms
Ship builders' terms, from stem to stern (these words aren't on the list).
lay, ram, rib, ribband, round-up, shelf, beam, deck-beam, shore, sny, spale, sponson and 248 more...
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Words that were new to me
but now they're not because I looked them up. In cases of polysemy or homography, *of course* it was the oddest meaning that stumped me. ;)
Procrustean bed, idem sonans, hob, backcap, quango, cheap-jack, pantechnicon, churrigueresco, chopfallen, maritorious, supererogation, catimini and 212 more...
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Random
These are just some random words that I might find a list for someday.
troglodytism, chinkle, vasculum, sabz, cucullus, tricornigerous, cuboctahedron, eruca, gamp, pilum, taha, angelhood and 244 more...
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Charlie's Words
manymore, crepidoma, metonym, tailings, mandrel, ogive, hypothecate, astragal, squinch, firrings, hod, finial and 24 more...
Tweets
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frogapplause Not blogging (otherwise known as nogging) Apr 3, 2013