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noun
Nog  n.  
1.
A wooden block, of the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.
2.
One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.
3.
(Shipbuilding) A treenail to fasten the shores.





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"Nog" Quotes from Famous Books



... remember, always showed a very proper respect for gentle people. I distinctly recall how well Jacob behaved when on one occasion Micajah Blair—a dreadful, dissolute character, though of a very old family and an intimate friend of your father's—took decidedly too much egg-nog one Christmas when he was visiting us, and insisted upon biting Jacob's cheek because it looked so like a winesap. Jacob had come to see your father on business, and I will say that he displayed a great deal of good ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... To help us please the dilettante's ear; Plutus limps homeward with us, as we leave The portals of the temple where we knelt And listened while the god of eloquence (Hermes of ancient days, but now disguised In sable vestments) with that other god Somnus, the son of Erebus and Nog, Fights in unequal contest for our souls; The dreadful sovereign of the under world Still shakes his sceptre at us, and we hear The baying of the triple-throated hound; Eros-is young as ever, and as fair The lovely Goddess born of ...
— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


Words linked to "Nog" :   pin, tee, trunnel, trenail, golf tee


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