Usually means: Made dense by compacting clay.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. pugged: Merriam-Webster
  2. pugged, pugged: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pugged: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pugged: Vocabulary.com
  5. pugged: Wordnik
  6. pugged: Wiktionary
  7. Pugged, pugged: Dictionary.com
  8. Pugged: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Pugged: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. pugged: FreeDictionary.org
  11. pugged: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pugged: Encyclopedia

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  1. pugged: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (PuG)

noun:  Senses relating to someone or something small.
noun:  In full pug dog: a small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail.
noun:  In full pug moth, often with a descriptive word: any geometrid moth of the tribe Eupitheciini, especially the genus Eupithecia; a geometer moth.
noun:  (clothing, historical) In full pug hood: a hood, sometimes with a short cloak attached, worn by women around the middle of the 18th century.
noun:  (rail transport) In full pug engine: a small locomotive chiefly used for shunting (“moving trains from one track to another, or carriages from one train to another”).
noun:  (UK, regional, archaic) Also used as a proper name: any of various animals, such as a ferret, hare, squirrel, or young salmon.
noun:  (specifically) Synonym of teg (“a sheep (originally a ewe) in its second year, or from the time it is weaned until it is first shorn”)
noun:  (specifically, obsolete) An ape, a monkey; also (by extension) a human child.
noun:  (specifically, obsolete) A fox.
noun:  (UK, regional, rare) A person or thing that is squat (“broad and short”).
noun:  (US, regional) A bun or knot of hair; also, a piece of cloth or snood for holding this in place.
noun:  (obsolete) A small demon; an imp, a puck, a sprite.
noun:  Senses relating to people.
noun:  (UK, historical) Chiefly used by servants: A senior or upper servant in a household.
noun:  (obsolete)
noun:  A mistress, or a female prostitute; also (generally, derogatory) a woman.
noun:  (endearing) A term of endearment for a person, or sometimes an animal or a toy such as a doll.
noun:  (nautical) A bargeman.
noun:  (nautical) A cabin boy, a shipboy or ship's boy.
noun:  (originally British India) The footprint or pawprint of an animal; a pugmark.
verb:  (transitive, British India, obsolete, rare) To track (an animal) by following pawprints; also (by extension) to track (a person) by following footprints.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  (rare) To hit or punch (someone or something); also, to poke (someone or something).
verb:  (construction) To fill or stop up (a space) with pug (noun sense 1), clay, sawdust, or other material by tamping; (specifically) to fill in (the space between joists of a floor, a partition, etc.) with some material to deaden sound, make fireproof, etc.
verb:  (construction, pottery) To mix and work (wet clay) until flexible, soft, and free from air pockets and suitable for making bricks, pottery, etc.
verb:  (chiefly Australia, New Zealand, archaic) Of cattle, etc.: to trample (the ground, a place, etc.) until it becomes muddy and soft; to poach.
verb:  (England, regional, also figurative, archaic) To pack or tamp (something) into a small space.
verb:  (intransitive, England, regional, also figurative, archaic) To pack or tamp into a small space.
noun:  Clay, soil, or other material which has been mixed and worked until flexible, soft, and free from air pockets and thus suitable for making bricks, pottery, etc.; also, any other material with a similar consistency or function, especially (Australia) auriferous (“gold-bearing”) clay.
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To pull or tug (something).
verb:  (obsolete) To spoil (something) by touching too much.
verb:  (intransitive) Followed by at: to pull or tug.
noun:  (Southwest England, archaic) The residue left after pressing apples for cider; pomace.
noun:  (obsolete) Often in the plural: the husks and other refuse removed from grain by winnowing; chaff.
verb:  (transitive, online gaming) To participate in structured content of an online game as part of a pickup group.
noun:  (online gaming) Alternative letter-case form of PuG (“a group of players who are unknown to each other, grouped together to work toward a short-term goal such as completing a dungeon or a raid”)
noun:  (informal) Clipping of pugilist (“one who fights with their fists, especially a professional prize fighter; a boxer”). [One who fights with their fists, especially a professional prize fighter; a boxer.]
noun:  Short for pug mill (“kind of mill for grinding, mixing, and working clay”). [(construction, pottery) A kind of mill for grinding, mixing, and working clay, either for art or brickmaking. It consists essentially of an upright shaft armed with projecting knives, which is caused to revolve in a hollow cylinder, tub, or vat in which the clay is placed.]
noun:  (online gaming) Acronym of pickup group (group of players who are unknown to each other, grouped together to work toward a short-term goal, such as completing a dungeon or a raid)
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