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Pug′ging.


1. (Building.) a. Lining the spaces [1818] between floor-joists with coarse mortar to prevent the passage of sound.

b. Stuff laid on partition-walls to deaden sound; felt, saw-dust, tan-bark. Deadening.

2. Claying; tamping with clay; stopping with puddle.

3. Grinding of clay, with a sufficiency of water to render it plastic. Tempering.

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