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verb (pugs, pugging, pugged)

• 1 (usually as adjective pugged) work (clay) into a soft, plastic condition suitable for making bricks or pottery, without air pockets: bricks set in pugged clay

• 2 (usually as noun pugging) pack (a space) with pug, sawdust, or other material in order to deaden sound: old-fashioned pugging with dry sand cannot be carried out

noun

• pugged clay.