▪ I. nog, n.1
(nɒg)
Also nogg.
[Of obscure origin.]
A peg, pin, or small block of wood serving for various purposes; chiefly techn. in special applications (see quots.). Also, a knag, snag, or stump on a tree or branch.
| 1611 Cotgr., Frayoire, the racke-staffe, or nog of a mill; the little peece of wood which rubbing against the hopper makes the corne fall from it. 1688 Holme Armoury iii, 287/2 The Bobbin or Nogg, a piece of round Wood with an handle to begin to wind or make the Clew on. Ibid. 332/2 The Noggs, are the handles of the Sythe. 1711 W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 162 Nog; a Trenel drove in at the Foot of each Shore, or the Props that support the Ship in the Nature of trigging the Shores. 1747 Hooson Miner's Dict. G iij b, We..therein put two Nogs of Wood and these keep the Forks from being pressed inward by the side Weight. a 1802 Jock o' the Syde xi. in Scott Minstrelsy Border I. 158 A tree they cut, wi' fifteen nogs on each side. 1841 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. IV. 234/2 The three holding nogs or dies are attached by screws to dove-tail slide-pieces. 1842 Gwilt Archit. 1008 Nogs, the same as Wood Bricks... The term is chiefly used in the north of England. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 986 The lifting-bar f, which rests at each end on wooden noggs tenoned into the bars. 1856 Bainbridge Law Mines & Min. (ed. 2) Gloss., Nog, square bits of wood piled to support the roof of coal mines. |
| attrib. 1747 Hooson Miner's Dict. G iij b, We put a Sill under them,..and drive them fast up against the Head-tree, so far till the Nog-holes appear on the inside of the Forks. |
▪ II. nog, n.2
(nɒg)
Also nogg.
[Of obscure origin.]
1. A kind of strong beer, brewed in East Anglia.
| 1693 Prideaux Lett. (Camden) 161 A bottle of old strong beer, w{supc}{suph} in this countrey [Norfolk] they call ‘nog’. 1723 Swift French Dog Wks. 1755 IV. i. 35 Walpole laid a quart of nog on't He'd either make a hog or dog on't. 1743 Lond. & Country Brew. iii. (ed. 2) 227 In Suffolk and Norfolk they run very much upon a light brown, or deep Amber colour'd Butt-Beer, which in the latter Place is called Nogg. 1774 Westm. Mag. II. 319 The Sailor toasts thy charms in flip and grog; The Norwich Weaver drinks Thee deep in nog. 1847 Stephens in Johnston & Browne Life (1878) 222 Our landlady sent round some nogg a while ago. 1893 F. B. Zincke Whersteed 261 Here ‘nog’ is a kind of strong ale. |
2. = egg-nog.
| 1851 A. O. Hall Manhattaner 10, I tremble to think of the juleps, and punches, and nogs, and soups. 1881 A. W. Tourgée Zouri's Christmas in Royal Gentleman viii. 527 Then he tried to drain the glass, but a part of the foamy nogg remained in it despite his efforts. 1896 Harper's Mag. XCII. 783/2 Mrs. Raker was holding a foaming glass to the sick man's lips. ‘There; take another sup of the good nog’, she said. |
▪ III. nog, v.
[f. nog n.1]
1. trans. To secure by nogs or pegs.
| 1711 W. Sutherland Shipbuild. Assist. 26 Then nog all the Shores very secure. |
2. To build with timber-framing and brick.
| 1805 Duncumb Agric. Heref. 30 They [cottages] are raised with stone two feet above the ground, and then carried to the roof with timber and brick in squares, or as it is here termed nogged together. |
Hence nogged (nɒgd) ppl. a., consisting of a timber framework filled in with brick. (Usu. in comb. brick-nogged.)
| 1688 R. Holme Armoury iii. 457/1 A Nogged Wall, being only of a Brick breadth. 1842 Gwilt Archit. §2024 When the spaces between the timbers or quarters are bricked up, it is called a bricknogged partition. |