What is "pugging"

Pug \Pug\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pugged; p. pr. & vb. n. Pugging.] [Cf. G. pucken to thump. beat.]

1. To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.

2. To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See Pugging, 2.

Pugging \Pug"ging\, n. [See Pug, v. t.]

1. The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc.

2. (Arch.) 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.

Pugging \Pug"ging\, a. Thieving. [Obs.]
--Shak.

n. (context architecture English) mortar etc. laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound. vb. (present participle of pug English)

1. n. small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle [syn: pug-dog]

2. [also: pugging, pugged]

See pug