nog
A wooden block, the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of…A wooden block, the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.
Meaning
6 sensesA wooden block, the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.
a wooden block built into a masonry wall so that joinery structure can be nailed to it
A treenail to fasten the shores.
(derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur)A dark-skinned person; nig-nog.
(Australia, dated, ethnic, slur)A Vietnamese person.
(archaic)One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.
(Norfolk, countable, especially, obsolete, uncountable)A kind of strong ale.
Origin
Variant of knag. Shortened from nig-nog.Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.