Pug /(?)/

Pug

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Pugged; p. pr. & vb. n. Pugging

  1. To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.
  2. To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See Pugging, 2.

Pug

n.
  1. Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.
  2. A pug mill.

Phrases & Compounds
Pug mill
a kind of mill for grinding and mixing clay, either for brickmaking or the fine arts; a clay mill. 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.

Pug

n.
  1. An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as Puck. [Obs.]
  2. A name for a monkey. [Colloq.]
  3. A name for a fox. [Prov. Eng.]
  4. An intimate; a crony; a dear one. [Obs.]
  5. Chaff; the refuse of grain. [Obs.]
  6. A prostitute. [Obs.]
  7. One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog. (Zool.)
  8. Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia. (Zool.)

Pug

n.
  1. A footprint; a track; as of a boar. [India]