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    Pugging (root: pug)
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-                                     The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc. [1913 Webster]
 -                                     Mortar or the like, laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound; -- in the United States usually called
deafening . [1913 Webster] 
Pugging, a. 
                                            
                                         Thieving.                                         Shak.                                         [1913 Webster]                                                                                                                    
                                                                                    
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