stog

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  1. To plunge a stick down through (the soil), in order to ascertain its depth; probe (a pool or marsh) with a pole. [Scots.]
  2. To plunge and fix in mire; stall in mud; mire. [Colloq., Eng.] It was among the ways of good Queen Bess, Who ruled as well as mortal ever can, sir, When she was stogg'd, and the country in a mess, She was wont to send for a Devon man, sir. West Country song, quoted in Kingsley's Westward Ho, x.
  3. To plant the feet slowly and cautiously in walking. Jamieson. [Scots.]

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  1. from stog, n.; ult. a variant of stock, v. Cf. stodge, v.
 

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