NOG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nog mean? 

• NOG (noun)
  The noun NOG has 2 senses:

1. a wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface

2. a wooden block built into a masonry wall so that joinery structure can be nailed to it

  Familiarity information: NOG used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wooden pin pushed or driven into a surface

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

nog; peg

Hypernyms ("nog" is a kind of...):

pin (a small slender (often pointed) piece of wood or metal used to support or fasten or attach things)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nog"):

golf tee; tee (a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the ground)

tent peg (a peg driven into the ground to hold a rope supporting a tent)

treenail; trenail; trunnel (a wooden peg that is used to fasten timbers in shipbuilding; water causes the peg to swell and hold the timbers fast)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A wooden block built into a masonry wall so that joinery structure can be nailed to it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("nog" is a kind of...):

block (a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides))

 Context examples 

A characteristic of a medicinal product, specifying that its most predominant agreeable savor detected by the unified sensation of taste and olfactory receptors resembles egg nog.

(Egg Nog Flavor, NCI Thesaurus)