PROG

v. n.

6 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks. [Low] A perfect artist in progging for money. Fuller. I have been endeavoring to prog for you. Burke.

2.
v.

To steal; to rob; to filch. [Low] Johnson.

3.
v.

To prick; to goad; to progue. [Scot.]

4.
n.

Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies. [Slang] Swift. So long as he picked from the filth his prog. R. Browning.

5.
n.

A vagrant beggar; a tramp. [Slang]

6.
n.

A goal; progue. [Scot.]

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