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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.

as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging.

n or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See Pugging, 2.

ense and not sound . . . must be the principle. Locke. Sound boarding, boards for holding pugging, placed in partitions of under floors in order to deaden sounds. -- Sound bow, in a series of transverse sections of a bell, that segment against which the clapper strikes, being the part which is most efficacious in prod…