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.