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/nɒɡ/ · noun
(carpentry) A wooden block, the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork..
Within a wall,[…], we find vertical studs, nogs or blocking, top and bottom plates, perhaps some form of diagonal braces, and many nailed and screwed connections.
nogs and chocks are used to support the roof where waste material can not conveniently be obtained
Walpole laid a quart of nog on't He'd either make a hog or dog on't.
Use nog when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Nog means (carpentry) A wooden block, the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork..
Common synonyms include noggie, peg.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Within a wall,[…], we find vertical studs, nogs or blocking, top and bottom plates, perhaps some form of diagonal braces, and many nailed and screwed connections.
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