▪ I. shogging, vbl. n.
(ˈʃɒgɪŋ)
[-ing1.]
The action of shog v.; a shaking, jolting, jerking, etc.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 447/2 Schoggynge,..agitacio. 1563–83 Foxe A. & M. 1492/1 Rogers..being found a slepe, scarse with much shogging could be awaked. 1600 Holland Livy xxvii. xxix. 650 Scarce able to endure the shogging and shaking of the horselitter. 1725 Bradley's Family Dict. s.v. Shoeing, So as the Heads of the Nails may enter in, and fill the same, appearing somewhat above the Shoe, and then they will stand sure without shogging, and endure Danger. |
b. spec. in Lace-making. (See quots.)
| 1839 Ure Dict. Arts 732 One of these two combs, in the double bolt machine, has an occasional lateral movement called shogging. 1878 A. Barlow Hist. Weaving 336 This motion of the comb-bar is technically called ‘shogging’, and by its means the diagonal arrangement is given to the threads. Ibid. 362 The ‘shogging’ motion of the combs. |
▪ II. ˈshogging, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That shogs.
| 1581 J. Studley tr. Seneca's Hippol. 61 The shogging carte made crake with swagging sway. a 1800 Pegge Suppl. Grose s.v. Shog, A shogging horse. a 1881 J. Craig in Mod. Scott. Poets Ser. ii. 123 The mavis will sing to me,..Aff the shoggin' boughs o' the sauchen tree. 1897 ‘O. Rhoscomyl’ White Rose Arno 272 A sort of shogging amble. |