nog

plural nogs

1. businessA 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.

   2014, Andrew Charleson, Structure As Architecture

2. archaicbusinessOne of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.

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

   1903, Gases Met with in Mines

3. businessA treenail to fasten the shores.

present singular third person nogs · participle present nogging · participle past nogged · past nogged

1. transitiveto fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork.
2. transitivebusinessto fasten, as shores, with treenails.

plural nogs

1. abbreviationShort for noggin.

plural nogs

1. abbreviationcountableuncountableAbbreviation of eggnog.
2. NorfolkcountableespeciallyobsoleteuncountableA kind of strong ale.

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

   1723, Jonathan Swift, Upon the Horrid Plot discovered by Harlequin

plural nogs

1. derogatoryethnicoffensiveslurA dark-skinned person; nig-nog.
2. AustraliadatedethnicslurA Vietnamese person.

   Synonyms: noggie

1. A male given name.