Nog

Quick meaning: Nog is a noun meaning (carpentry) A wooden block, the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.

Meaning

(carpentry) A wooden block, the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.

More Meanings

1. (shipbuilding) A treenail to fasten the shores.
2. (transitive) to fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork.
3. (transitive, shipbuilding) to fasten, as shores, with treenails.
4. Short for noggin.
5. Abbreviation of eggnog.
6. (archaic, carpentry, mining) One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.
7. (obsolete, especially Norfolk) A kind of strong ale.

Example Sentences

Walpole laid a quart of nog on't He'd either make a hog or dog on't.

nogs and chocks are used to support the roof where waste material can not conveniently be obtained

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.

Word Forms

• nogs
• nogging
• nogged

Synonyms for nog

Depending on context, synonyms include noggie, peg.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include peg, plug, nailer, noggin, leader, montant.

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