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▪ I. plug, n.|plʌg|
[app. a. MDu. and early mod.Du. plugge a plug, bung, stopper, Du. plug; so MLG., LG. plugge, plügge, LG. plüg, also Swed. plugg, pligg, Da. plög. Other types appear in MLG., LG. plock, pluck, MHG. pfloc, pflocke, Ger. pflock; and in NFris. plaak, Da. plök. Further history unknown. (Ir., Gael. pluc is from Eng.)]
1. a. A piece of wood or other solid or firm material, driven into or used to stop up a hole or aperture which it tightly fits, to fill a gap, or act as a wedge; also transf. a natural or morbid concretion having a similar action.
1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ii. 10 A Hause-plug at Sea. 1648Hexham Dutch Dict., Een Plugge, a Plugge, or a wooden Pegg. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. To Ld. Dungarvan, Wks. I. 9 Shutting the valve with the plug,..he is to draw down the sucker to the bottom of the cylinder. 1669― Contn. New Exp. i. (1682) 161 On which was put a Wooden Plug markt with Ink. 1705J. Taylor Journ. Edinborough (1903) 62 The Canopy is not supported by a Pillar, but by..a Pinn or Plugg plac't exactly in the Center. 1706Phillips, Plug, a great wooden Peg, to stop the Bottom of a Cistern or Cask. 1790J. C. Smyth in Med. Commun. II. 483 The plug or stopper of the Canula was taken out. 1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 464 The aperture being supplied with a plug of the required form, some clay is put into the cylinder, and the piston forced down, by turning the screw, which causes the clay to protrude through the aperture in the shape required. 1845Budd Dis. Liver 143 A string of small abscesses had formed along them, separated here and there by a plug of lymph. 1861Wynter Soc. Bees 194 Instantly he drops..a plug of molten solder, which hermetically seals it. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. i. 1 Wooden plugs as big as table spoons put through slits in the under lip. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 555 Small plugs of horny epidermis can be picked out, leaving pits behind.
b. spec. One for temporarily stopping the waste pipe at the bottom of a sink, wash-basin, or bath.
1860T. Hamilton in T. L. Donaldson Handbk. Specifications i. 221 A neat wash-hand basin, with brass plug, socket, and chain. 1872W. Eassie Healthy Houses iv. 37 Although not long introduced the ordinary troughs and basins with plugs at the bottom and with supply taps..are sufficiently familiar as not to need any description. 1901G. L. Sutcliffe Sanitary Fittings & Plumbing vii. 48 The plug is of the type known as ‘sunk’, the stud and chain-ring being in the sunk portion of the plug, so as not to project above the bottom of the sink. 1965A. L. Townsend Plumbing Second Yr. iii. 72 The bath will..be fitted with a waste plug and chain. Ibid., The ‘pop-up’ plug is operated by turning a handle incorporated in the overflow fitting.
c. A device designed to be inserted into a suitable socket to establish an electrical connection; spec. one for connecting the lead of an appliance to an electricity supply, consisting of an insulated casing with two or three pins (or, formerly, with one pin and a ring); also (chiefly colloq. or as wall plug), a socket fixed to or in a wall for receiving such a plug. Also fig. (For to pull the plug see sense 2 k.)
1883J. W. Urquhart Electric Light (ed. 2) ix. 286 When it is required to transmit the current to a particular lamp, a metal plug is inserted at the point where the bar connected with the lamp and the bar connected with the machine intersect. Ibid. 296 The ‘safety fusible plugs’ employed in the Edison and Swan systems usually consist of a short length of lead wire. Their function is to melt..should an unduly strong current..be transmitted. 1888D. Salomons Management of Accumulators (ed. 3) ii. ii. 97 Wall plugs are most useful about a house for attaching a portable lamp or small motor at will. Ibid. 98 The portable lamp has a reel of twin wire at its base, with the ends of wires going to the lamp-holder and a connector respectively. This connector fits the wall plug by pushing in the two pins it carries. 1890Ibid. (ed. 5) ii. ii. 166 Mr. Taylor Smith's pattern of portable lamp has a reel of twin wire in its base, with the ends of the wires going to the lamp-holder and a connector plug respectively. The two pins of this plug are pushed into the wall connector..to obtain the light. 1891F. C. Allsop Telephones vi. 97 When the plug is inserted between the two blocks.., the circuit is closed. 1892― Pract. Electr.-Light Fitting v. 72 When the plug..is inserted in the socket,..the lamp can be lighted. 1923T. E. Herbert Teleph. xiii. 316 It is particularly important that during the insertion of the plug the two springs of the jack shall not be short circuited. 1929E. A. Robertson Three came Unarmed vii. 111 Nonie was..stooping to fix into a wall-plug the flex of the standard lamp. 1945, etc. [see pin n.1 1 m]. 1960H. Pinter Caretaker ii. 48 There used to be a wall plug for this electrolux. 1972Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 5/4 The whole point of the call, her thinking I was a plug into good connections. 1976D. Phillips Planning your Lighting 13/1 A power point with an outcrop of plugs and flexes feeding a number of different items of equipment is still a common sight.
2. spec. in various technical applications; as
a. A small block of boxwood let into an engraved woodblock to replace a damaged part of the surface. b. Die-sinking. A soft steel cylinder on the end of which an impression is taken from a punch to form a die. c. A tapering block of wood driven into a wall between the stones or bricks so as to bear a nail. d. Mining. The iron wedge or punch which is driven between two other wedges, called feathers (feather n. 16 b), to split rock, coal, stone, etc. e. In railways, A wedge-pin driven between a rail and its chair. f. Dentistry. The filling of a hollow tooth. g. The part of a tap or stop-cock which passes transversely through the pipe and cuts off the water or permits it to flow. h. A cylindrical piece of wood used in firing a line from a gun in life-saving operations. † i. The plunger of a pump.
1766Croker, etc. Dict. Arts, etc. s.v. Water, At the end of which [levers] are jointed four rods with their forcing plugs working into four cast iron cylinders. 1836Brande Chem. (ed. 4) 172 The piston having reached the bottom of the cylinder, the plug of the cock..shifts its position, and..the steam enters as before.., and passes in the direction of the arrows to the bottom cylinder, so as to elevate the piston. 1839Chatto Wood Engrav. 645 note, The ‘plug’ which they [Albert Dürer and his contemporaries] inserted was usually square, and not circular as at present. 1841Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. IV. 30/2 A long coil of rope, 3/4 inch diameter, with a stout piece of wood or plug..fastened to it. This plug is intended to be put in the mouth of the gun. Ibid. 125/1 The carronade was fired from off the pier, which carried the plug beyond the breakers. 1842–76Gwilt Archit. Gloss., Plug and Feather, or Key and Feather, a name given to a method of dividing hard stones by means of a long tapering wedge called the key, and wedge-shaped pieces of iron called feathers. 1860Bartlett Dict. Amer., Plug, applied by dentists to a filling of gold or other material inserted in a tooth. 1875Ure Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 31 This punch becomes an inexhaustible parent of dies, without further reference to the original matrix; for now by impressing upon it plugs of soft steel..we procure impressions from it to any amount. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 1749/2 An instrument for condensing the filling or plug in a tooth by a rapid succession of strokes. 1881Young Ev. Man his Own Mechanic §1275 The proper manner of making or cutting a plug to drive between bricks. 1893–4Northumbld. Gloss. s.v., The plug and feather was introduced into coal mining by Mr. G. C. Greenwell in 1869. It had been from early times used in lead mining.
j. Zool. = piston n. 3.
1854Woodward Mollusca ii. 249 The large central impression is produced by the muscle of the plug (the equivalent of the byssal muscle in Pinna and Modiola).
k. In some old types of water-closet, a stopper which kept the water in the pan and was pulled to let the contents fall into the soil pipe. Now Obs. exc. Hist. and in phr. to pull the plug, to flush the lavatory; also fig. and transf., usu. referring to sudden release or (with allusion to sense 1 c) disconnection.
1859F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing i. 13 As well might you have a sewer under the room, or think that in a water closet the plug need be pulled up but once a day. 1873B. Latham Sanitary Engin. 331 When the handle H which lifts the plug is raised, everything in the basin is suddenly discharged into the trap below, and so into the drain. 1896T. E. Coleman Sanitary House Drainage xiii. 97 Should a small piece of paper or other substance prevent the plug resting tightly upon its seat, the water above gradually escapes into the drain, and impure air is then free to enter the building. 1919R. Fry Let. May (1972) II. 451 A real Victorian W.C. with a pull up plug. 1934V. M. Yeates Winged Victory xix. 152 Showers of tracers..frightened him and made him pull the plug rather too soon, and..he..saw his bombs burst a long way from his target. 1935A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 92/1 Pull the plug, to start negotiations; proceed; tell the narrative without delay. 1935D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night ii. 43 It was not..an agreeable drawing... She took it..into the nearest lavatory, dropped it in and pulled the plug on it. 1939R. Godden Black Narcissus xxv. 214 I've come to mend a loose joint in your pipe... The plug won't pull till I do. 1943C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 50 To pull the plug, to release the bombs in one go, as distinct from playing the piano. 1943G. Greene Ministry of Fear i. iii. 60 Pull the plug... Wait till the cistern refills, then pull the plug again. 1948Amer. Speech XXIII. 38/2 [Submarines] Pull the plug, to dive or submerge. 1949D. Smith I capture Castle (1950) iii. 31 It had a huge bath with a wide mahogany surround, and two mahogany-seated lavatories, side by side, with one lid to cover them both. The pottery parts showed views of Windsor Castle and when you pulled the plug the bottom of Windsor Castle fell out. 1961C. Cockburn View from West vii. 81 The British statesman finds its [sic] nearly impossible to make a simple statement..which might not inadvertently pull the plug on himself and flush him..down the drain. 1964C. Mackenzie Life & Times III. 75 ‘They must not hurt my seat.’ He then pulled up the plug, and pushed it down again. ‘Doulton you see.’ 1965Ibid. IV. 22 The plug in the water-closet seldom worked. 1972Guardian 4 Sept. 11/1 Pauline Jones..was transferred from Holloway to open prison..and the plug was suddenly pulled out of the big public outcry over the sentence. 1973Houston Chron. 21 Oct. 28 For the first time data are at hand on when to ‘pull the plug’ on an unconscious patient being sustained artificially. 1974Observer 18 Aug. 11/4 Any prudent banker would have pulled the plug on Court Line long ago. 1977Spare Rib Sept. 12/2 The older lady pulled the plug on her tormentors by prudently using the vibrator.
l. Geol. (i) A cylindrical mass of solidified lava occupying the vent of a volcano. Cf. neck n.1 12 c.
1882A. Geikie Text-bk. Geol. 256 If the tuff of a cone..were swept away, we should find a central lava plug or core resembling the volcanic ‘heads’..of Germany. 1900Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. LVI. 221 Mount Kenya is an ancient much-eroded volcano; the highest peak is formed of the rocks of the central plug. 1944A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. xx. 456 Later, the plug of the conduit was forced bodily upwards, through the dome, thus forming the celebrated ‘spine’ of Mont Pelée. 1976P. Francis Volcanoes iii. 123 The vent may well become blocked with a slow-moving or stationary plug of lava.
(ii) A mass of rock, esp. salt, which has been forced upwards by tectonic pressures, lifting overlying strata into the form of a dome.
1906Prof. Papers U.S. Geol. Survey No. 46. 67 Lee Hager..has suggested a hypothesis which explains the origin of these..domes..by the upthrust of an igneous plug. 1918Econ. Geol. XIII. 452 The intrusion or formation of the salt plug has produced a sharp local doming or quaquaversal structure. 1944Nat. Geogr. Mag. Jan. 16/2 Those ‘salt domes’ or ‘plugs’ that yield oil may also yield sulphur. 1970W. G. Roberts Quest for Oil iii. 30 Salt..flows relatively easily under the high pressures exerted by earth movements, and can be forced into a plug or dome.
m. A sparking plug.
1886D. Clerk Gas Engine viii. 204 The igniting points..consist of porcelain plugs. 1890W. Robinson Gas & Petroleum Engines vii. 225 The igniter..consists of a brass tube..screwed into the end covers at the top of cylinder. This tube contains a plug of porcelain..to insulate the points of the platinum wires. 1902J. E. Hutton in A. C. Harmsworth Motors & Motor-Driving viii. 151 An English firm has recently introduced a plug which contains no breakable insulators. 1922J. Buchan Bk. Escapes viii. 151 They had flown all the way to Egypt without cleaning their plugs! 1948A. Morgan Boys' Bk. of Engines ix. 110 When a spark jumps across the plug points it ignites the petrol-air mixture in the cylinder. 1973F. Peterson Hand-bk. Lawn Mower Repair iii. 52 You can clean the old plug with a wire brush, then make sure the electrodes are set the proper distance apart.
3. The cock upon a public water-pipe to which a hose is attached to obtain water for a fire-engine and other purposes; a fire-plug.
1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Building, One Leather Pipe and Socket of the same Size as the Plug or Fire-Cock, to the intent the Socket might be put into the Pipe, to convey the Water clean into the Engine. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr., T. Drury Lane, Before the plug was found. 1833Act 3 & 4 Will. IV, c. 46 §97 The said commissioners may provide one or more fire engines and fire cocks or plugs. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., This pipe is closed by a cap or plug, which is removed..when the hose is to be attached.
4. a. Tobacco pressed into a flat oblong cake or stick. b. A piece of cake or twist tobacco cut off for chewing, etc.
1728Swift Past. Dial. vi, The dean threw me this tobacco plug: A longer ha'p'orth never did I see. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. II. xlii. 66 Offering him a few plugs of tobacco. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxi, Cutting a quid or plug from his cake of tobacco. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 853 The tobacco being generally twist or plug.
5. A blow of the fist; a punch, a knock. slang.
1798Pitt in Ld. Rosebery Life (1891) 208 The bill is to be read a second time tomorrow, and, in spite of many Plugs from Sir W. Pulteney, will certainly pass. 1898M. Davitt Life & Progr. Australia xxxv. 192 If he hits a man in fighting That is what he calls a ‘plug’.
6. a. Applied to a horse: with various connotations. U.S., Austral. and N.Z. slang.
Explained in American Dicts. as ‘a horse past his prime’, ‘an old horse worn down by hard work’; a New Zealander knows it as a horse which is ‘a good sort’; an Australian authority, as applied to a horse of 15 hands or 15· 1, of a good steady ambling character, working well but not fast.
1860in A. H. Oldroyd Lincoln's Campaign (1896) 171 There's an old plow ‘hoss’ whose name is ‘Dug’... He's short and thick and a regular ‘plug’. 1872‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. Abr. xxvii. 208 We bought two sorry-looking Mexican ‘plugs’. 1885W. T. Hornaday 2 Yrs. in Jungle xxiv. 284 The horses were large and rather raw-boned Australian ‘plugs’, well qualified for the work they had to do. 1888Brooklyn Daily Eagle 22 Apr. (Farmer Amer.), In the first race a plug named Cator was the favorite, but another plug named Battledore won. 1930V. Palmer Men are Human xxi. 195 There would be a moral rot and everyone would be looking for an old plug to ride. 1948Chicago Tribune 12 Dec. (Grafic Mag.) 5/5 He was a hopeless plug and never ran in the money. 1972Dict. Contemp. & Colloq. Usage (Eng.-Lang. Inst. Amer.) 22/3 Plug,..a worn-out old horse; a nag.
b. transf. An incompetent or undistinguished person. Also, a bloke, a fellow. Also attrib.
1848Ladies' Repository VIII. 316/2 Plug,..a nickname for a homely man. 1863in J. D. Billings Hardtack & Coffee (1887) 72 Next came General Meade, a slow old plug, For he let them away at Gettysburg. 1899‘J. Flynt’ Tramping ii. iv. 278 I'm always willing to be square to a square plug (fellow). Ibid. iv. 396 Plug, a fellow; synonymous with ‘bloke’ and ‘stiff’. 1900Dialect Notes II. 49 Plug... 2. A hard student... 3. A slow, disagreeable person. 4. A short, thick-set person. 1904‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing 251/1 Plug, a fellow. 1920S. Lewis Main St. 308 You figure I'm just a plug general practitioner. 1921[see gee n.4]. 1935N. Ersine Underworld & Prison Slang 58 Plug, a working stiff, an ox. 1948Redbook Mag. (Chicago) Mar. 48/2 You—you broken reed! You doormat! Old steady, unimaginative, dumb plug!
c. A book which does not sell well, and becomes bad stock.
1889Cent. Dict. (1890) VI. 4565/1 Plug,..a shelf-worn book. 1901Dialect Notes II. 145 Plug, a book left on author's or publisher's hands. N.Y. City. 1928Publisher's Circular 21 July 59/2 Out of the vast number of publications issued, some must, indeed, turn out to be plugs. 1930Publisher's Weekly 15 Mar. 1546/1 The so-called plugs are weeded out..making room for new titles. 1948H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. xi. 739 Plug, a good book that no one wants. 1970R. K. Kent Lang. Journalism 104 Plug. 1. (a) a book sold at a reduced price by a publisher after sales have fallen off: in plural, also remainders.
d. A steady plodding course. (Cf. plug v. 4.)
1903Eng. Dial. Dict. IV. 557/2 Plug,..a long-continued pull. 1909Daily Chron. 16 Sept. 3/4 The story is of the quiet plug of the prosaic Henry and the meteoric flight of the splendid Len. 1911A. Cherry-Garrard Jrnl. 17 Dec. in Worst Journey in World (1922) II. x. 359 It was a hard plug up the waves.
7. Short for plug-hat: see 11. U.S. slang.
1848Ladies' Repository VIII. 316/2 Plug, a hat. 1864Webster, Plug,..a gentleman's silk hat; so called from its cylindrical form. (Colloq. and low.) 1891E. Kinglake Australian at H. 6 The reign of the ‘stove pipe’, or as the Americans have it, ‘the plug’, is as secure in Australia as anywhere. 1891Kipling City Dreadf. Nt. 9 He steps into the brougham and puts on—a top hat, a shiny black ‘plug’.
8. A draught of beer. slang.
1816‘Quiz’ Grand Master vii. 184 Come, Sir, another plug of malt.
9. An advertisement; an instance of publicity; a method of drawing attention to (a product, an entertainment, etc.). colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1902G. Ade Girl Proposition 50 They were friendly to the prosperous Bachelor and each one determined to put in a few quiet Plugs for Sis. 1929Variety 10 July 1/5 Everything gets a Wrigley plug, for the benefit of his gum. 1937[see credit n. 13 d]. 1946Sat. Rev. Lit. 30 Nov. 5/1 Dale gets in a neat plug for the publisher's blurb on the dust jacket. 1953Recorder 17 Nov. 4/5 Why do you give them [sc. Selfridges] a free plug? 1957Time 2 Sept. 27/1 The policy emerged mostly as a clearly reasoned plug for the kind of development job private capital and U.S. aid have been doing in Latin America. 1958Spectator 13 June 762/1 Nobody will be a penny the better off for the debate except Mr. Noel-Baker, whose new book on disarmament..got a series of plugs that not even a film programme on BBC television could rival. 1965N. Gulbenkian Pantaraxia xiv. 288 It was to give a ‘plug’ to Jack Barclay..and..Panelcraft..that I agreed to appear in ‘Tonight’. 1973Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 1442/5 The Observer more than compensated..in the same edition as the pious editorial and the color plug. 1978Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVI. 418/1, I was interested in Sir Monty's plug for engineers to be involved as managers in top management.
10. Angling. A lure with one or more hooks attached.
1932Kansas City Times 13 May 22 There is some balm for the fellow who thinks he is paying too much for his plugs, flies and other equipment. 1944‘N. Shute’ Pastoral i. 5 To take his new rod and his new reel and his new plugs. 1960M. Sharcott Place of Many Winds v. 100 These beaches have been known to yield many valuable articles, the best of which are probably the fishing lures, or plugs as fishermen call them. 1967Daily Tel. 21 Oct. 14/6 Orange-coloured plugs are the most killing for late evening. 1976Norwich Mercury 19 Nov. 9/5 Jeremy Epton and Anthony Raywood, 11, were having no success at all dipping a plug into the nearby River Wensum hoping for a pike.
11. attrib. and Comb., as plug-bat, plug-bolt, plug-bullet, plug-finisher (sense 2 f), plug-machine, plug-point, plug-pony (sense 6), plug-shot; plug-like adj.; (sense 9) plug number, plug schedule, plug song; plug-arbor, an arbor or mandril in a lathe on which a drill chuck is mounted (Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl. 1884); plug-assist, a heated plunger used in the vacuum moulding of plastics which forces the plastic partially into the mould cavity before the vacuum is applied; the technique of using this device; freq. attrib.; hence plug-assisted a., using a plug-assist; plug-bait = plug n. 10; plug-basin, a wash-hand basin having a plug-hole for letting the water out; † plug-basket (Brewing), ? the depression at the bottom of the mash-tun into which the plug drops; plug-bayonet, the original form of bayonet, which was fixed in the muzzle of the gun; plug-board (Electr.), a switch-board in which the connexions are made by inserting plugs (Cent. Dict. 1890); also, a similar piece of equipment used with data-processing apparatus, in which receptacles can be interconnected by lengths of wire with a plug at each end, and which is usually made to be removable to facilitate changes of program or function, the receptacles making electrical contact with fixed terminals on the machine when it is in place; plug-box (Mining), a wooden pipe to carry off water while putting the watertight casing to a shaft; plug-centre-bit: see quot.; plug-cock, (a) a tap having a perforated plug through which the liquid flows when turned on; (b) see quot.; plug-draining, a system of draining heavy clay land, in which plugs or blocks of wood are placed at the bottom of the cutting to keep the channel open, and are withdrawn after the cutting has been filled up; plug-drawer, one who took part in the plug-riots, q.v.; plug flow, flow of a body of ice or other viscous fluid en bloc, with no shearing between adjacent layers; plug-frame, a contrivance attached to the beam of a steam-engine, for opening and closing the valves of the cylinder; plug fuse Electr., a fuse that is screwed into a socket; plug gauge, a gauge in the form of a plug which is used for measuring the diameter of a hole; plug-hat, (a) (U.S. slang), a silk, ‘top’, or ‘chimney-pot’ hat [some say, because the head fits in it like a plug]; (b) Austral., a bowler-hat; hence plug-hatted a.; plug-hole, an aperture fitted with a plug by which it can be closed; also in fig. phrases (cf. drain n. 1 e); plug horse N. Amer. = sense 6; plug-joggle (Masonry), a joggle of the character of a plug; plugman: see quots.; plug nozzle, in a rocket or jet engine, a nozzle containing a central plug that diverges towards the exit and then converges, so that the gas is expelled in a converging annular stream; also attrib.; plug-riots, a name given to certain riotous proceedings c 1842, when cotton mills in Lancashire were stopped from working by the removal or ‘drawing’ of a few bolts or ‘plugs’ in the boilers so as to prevent steam from being raised; plug-rod, (a) see quot. 1858; (b) = plug-frame; plug-switch (Electr.), a switch in which connexion is made by inserting a metal plug; plug-tap, a cylindrical tap for cutting the threads of female screws or of screw-plates; plug tobacco = sense 4; plug-tree = plug frame; plug-valve: see quot.
1958Brit. Plastics XXXI. 20/2 Almost immediately the heated *plug-assist is lowered into the bubble. 1958Times Rev. Industry Aug. 57/2 This machine uses deep-draw, drape, Airslip, and drop-form plug assist techniques either individually or in combination.
1958Brit. Plastics XXXI. 352/2 Drape and *plug-assisted techniques are particularly suitable. 1965L. A. H. Eastman tr. Thiel's Princ. Vacuum Forming iv. 41 For single mouldings plug-assisted forming seldom offers any advantage over air-slip forming.
1955*Plug-bait [see ironmongery 1 d].
1743Lond. & Country Brew. iv. (ed. 2) 267 Flour of all Malt, especially if it is ground very small, is apt to wash to the *Plug-Basket, and thereby cause a foul Wort to run off.
1837Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 44/2 A hole of two inches diameter having been..made in each side of the stone, and *plug bats..inserted.
18834th Meeting U.S. Nat. Telephone Exchange Assoc., 1882 38 Switchboards are generally classified as ‘cord’ or ‘*plug’ boards. Ibid. 39 The plug boards were the favorites. 1946Ann. Computation Lab. Harvard Univ. I. 21 The out-relay,..through which the product is read out of the multiply unit, connects to the buss through a plugboard provided to fix the decimal point relation between the product counter and the buss. 1957D. D. McCracken Digital Computer Programming 231 A number of the small machines are controlled by a removable plugboard... There are ordinarily many of them with each machine, one for each recurring problem. 1970O. Dopping Computers & Data Processing xv. 231 In older computers, the distribution of input card fields over different parts of memory was often effected with plugboards as in conventional punched card machines. 1977Sci. Amer. Sept. 155/1 Hardware prototyping mechanisms commonly include wire-wrap breadboard models, plugboard setups or printed-circuit prototypes.
1838Ibid. 258/2 A form of *plug bolt peculiarly adapted for mooring and warping up rapids.
1883Gresley Coal Mining Gloss., *Plug Box, a wooden water-pipe used in coffering.
1858Greener Gunnery 390 ‘Wobbling’, a principle inherent in all *plug bullets after leaving the muzzle.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Plug-center Bit, a bit having a cylinder instead of a point, so as to fit within the hole around which a countersink or enlargement is to be made.
1884Ibid. Suppl., *Plug Cock, a faucet which is simply driven into a barrel, not screwed in.
1833Encycl. Brit. (ed. 7) VIII. 139/2 *Plug draining..is exclusively confined to the draining of tenacious clay, and chiefly practised on pasture land.
1888F. Peel (title) The Risings of the Luddites, Chartists, and *Plugdrawers.
1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., *Plug Finisher,..a fine file for finishing the surfaces of tooth fillings.
1951Proc. R. Soc. A. CCVII. 560 There is then no relative movement except in the lowest layer and the block simply slides downhill as a rigid body... (The corresponding motion in a block between rough plates has been called ‘*plug flow’.) 1972B. W. Sparks Geomorphology (ed. 2) xiii. 382 Temperate glaciers in summer are likely to be the most effective agents of erosion especially if they are sliding over their beds and undergoing plug flow. 1974D. K. Smith in P. L. Moore et al. Drilling Practices Manual xvi. 437 This readily converts to a maximum pump rate in order to remain in plug flow.
1763Fitzgerald in Phil. Trans. LIII. 152 The *plug frame, which is a piece of timber moved by the leaver through a wooden groove, by which the steam valve, and injection cock are opened and shut alternately. 1824R. Stuart Hist. Steam Engine 71 In the perpendicular working beam, called by Beighton [? c 1720] the plug-frame, there is a slit which is contrived so that its pins work on the fore part, middle, and back part, to raise and depress the levers..that move the iron axle.
1905Jrnl Inst. Electr. Engineers XXXV. 365 The earliest form of Edison *plug fuse dates from 1880. Ibid. 405 Enclosed or cartridge fuses..have been developed from the Edison plug fuse. 1971W. N. Alerich Electr. Construction Wiring xi. 283 (heading) Plug fuse designed to pass safely 15 amps.
1895Appleby's Illustr. Handbk. Machinery iv. 129 The *plug gauges above 2 inch are cored out for lightness. 1905[see lap v.4]. 1971B. Scharf Engin. & its Language vii. 49 Plug gauges (plain, tapered or pin gauges) are used for checking holes, mainly in order to ensure that they are not too narrow at any point.
1863in J. D. Burn Three Yrs. Working Classes U.S. (1965) 223 Fancy a ragged man..with a gun, a knapsack, a butcher's knife and a *plug hat. 1881Philad. Record (U.S.) No. 3455/6 The plug hat is virtually a sort of social guarantee for the preservation of peace and order. 1899Morrow Bohem. Paris 138 A dizzy whirl of skirts, feathers, plug hats, and silken stockings. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 55 Plug hat, a bowler hat. 1947Plug-hat [see cow-hide n. 4]. 1977Time 14 Mar. 30/1 He chuckled over the memory of seeing Tammany Democrats dressed in their long coats and plug hats but so broke they could not pay their hotel bills.
1891Kipling City Dreadf. Nt. 4 An austere, *plug-hatted redskin.
1773Gentl. Mag. XLIII. 497 To prevent the steam from coming out at the *plug-hole..or lid. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 60 A vessel, having a plug-hole at bottom. 1898Westm. Gaz. 10 Sept. 2/3 While the Post Office..provides and maintains the fire alarm, the County Council undertake to supply the necessary telephones and to make plug-holes in the alarm posts. 1968Listener 22 Feb. 243/1 May I ask..whether the anonymity demanded by the ethics of the ‘profession’ is now to be regarded as having..gone down the plug-hole? 1973Guardian 28 Mar. 10/6 Nothing escaped so completely as Warhol himself. A positive plug hole of a man around which the bath water swirled. 1973Times 17 May 12/5 That [term] went down the plughole of progress.
1887Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Ky.) 4 Feb. 3/5 Wanted—40 *plug horses and mares at Lum Simon's Stables. 1969N. W. Parsons Sagebrush Harp xviii. 97 Later, Papa bought another plug horse, giving a note due the following fall.
1791Smeaton Edystone L. 194/2 The central *plug joggle, fixed in place..ready for the reception of the center stone of the next Course.
1875Huxley & Martin Elem. Biol. (1877) 61 The two [cells]..subdivide and ultimately form a *plug-like, cellular, mass, which imbeds itself firmly in the substance of the prothallus.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Plug-machine, a machine for making wooden plugs for faucet-holes of..barrels.
1852Mining Gloss. (in Northumb. Gloss.), *Plugman, the man in charge of a pit pumping engine. 1862Smiles Engineers III. 27 George [Stephenson]'s duty as plugman was to watch the engine, to see that it kept well in work, and that the pumps were efficient. 1883Gresley Coal Mining Gl., Plugman, an old term for engineman.
1960Astronautics Apr. 100/2 There are many ways in which such combustors can be combined with a nozzle..to form attractive propulsion system configurations. One possible configuration is a segmented annular combustor with a ‘*plug nozzle’. 1970A. V. Cleaver in N. H. Langton Rocket Propulsion II. iv. 136 There would be..appreciable savings in the length and weight of interstage vehicle structures if plug-nozzle engines were used in the upper stages; on the other hand,..the small performance gains would be associated more with the use of plug nozzles on bottom stages.
1933P. Godfrey Backstage xiv. 173 In pursuance of his theory of the value of reiteration de Courville instituted the feature of the ‘*plug number’.
1884J. G. Bourke Snake Dance Moquis xxix. 315 Our mules and Nahi-vehma's *plug pony stampeded.
1849Cobden Speeches 90 In 1842, when the country was disturbed by the great *plug riots, not a thread was disturbed from a spindle. 1888F. Peel Risings of Luddites, etc. xxxix. 338 Trade in 1842, the year of the plug riots, was worse than ever.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, *Plug-rod, an air-pump rod. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Plug-rod, (Steam-engine) a. A rod attached to the working⁓beam of a condensing-engine, for the purpose of driving the working-gear of the valves. Sometimes called the plug⁓tree. b. The air-pump rod. 1878Thurston Growth Steam-Engine 121 A similar pair of tappets on the opposite side of the plug-rod move the valves.
1947Time 24 Nov. 74/3 Music publishers and recording companies were getting together on ‘*plug schedules’ to ration out the hits.
1901G. Douglas Ho. w. Green Shutters 138 He..ground them [his words] out like a labouring mill, each word solid as *plug shot.
1939Melody Maker 3 June 1/2 Each band..will be playing in any programme of ten items, no less than eight *plug songs. 1952B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz Amer. (1958) xiv. 159 The plug songs of the moment.
1815J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 39 When it is cylindrical, it is called a *plug tap. 1861F. Campin Hand-turn. v. 111 A plug-tap has the full depth of screw-thread all along its length. 1891Cent. Dict. s.v. Tap, Taps are usually made in sets of three..the third, called the plug-tap or finishing tap, is always cylindrical, with the first two or three threads tapering off.
1814in Deb. Congress U.S. (1855) 17th Congress 2 Sess., App. 1218 *Plug tobacco manufactured at Columbia, one shilling and three pence per pound. 1897Westm. Gaz. 20 May 2/3 The tax on..plug and smoking tobacco is to be permanently raised. 1899New Cent. Rev. V. 133 Passable cigars are obtainable, and the plug tobacco is bad.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 169 Mr. Henry Beighton, of Newcastle,..invented the part called the *plug-tree, for opening and shutting the valves. 1842Penny Cycl. XXII. 476/2 As the plug-tree moved up and down with the beam, the tappets struck the ends of bent levers or cranks, which raised or depressed the valves in proper succession.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Plug-valve, a tapering valve, fitting into a seat like a faucet.
Add: [c indigo][2.] n.[/c] Hort. A small piece of turf or pre-planted soil used esp. for filling or seeding lawns. orig. and chiefly U.S.
1947Puerto Rico Federal Exper. Station Circular No. 26. 15 Holes are dug in the existing sod about 12 inches apart both ways, and the Manila grass plugs are set at their previous depth. 1954Rockwell & Grayson Compl. Bk. Lawns ix. 94 While most lawns in the U.S. are grown from seed, some grasses..are established..by inserting 2-4 inch square ‘plugs’, spaced 12 to 18 inches apart each way, in the prepared soil. 1961L. N. Wise Lawn Bk. iii. 99 The plugs or sod pieces are..dropped into corresponding size holes that have been laid out in some definite pattern. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 31 Jan. 2/6 (Advt.), Every plug guaranteed to grow in any soil in your area. 1984Gainesville (Florida) Sun 3 Apr. 2a/5, I ordered some zoysia grass plugs from Lakeland Nurseries..and charged it to my MasterCard credit card.
o. Med. Any of the small patches of scalp with strong hair-growth which are grafted on to a balding area in hair transplantation.
1973Cutis XI. 90/1 Three days later, 30 plugs were transplanted two inches behind the suture line previously described, on the left frontoparietal area. 1979P. Kingsley Compl. Hair Bk. (1980) 77 About a year after he first saw me, the count went to a plastic surgeon in London and had a thousand transplanted plugs put in his scalp. 1983Which? Sept. 392/1 Punch grafting—plugs of between 12 and 15 hair follicles are taken from the back and sides of the head (where the hair is still growing thickly) and reimplanted in the balding areas. 1987Muscle & Fitness Oct. 33/2 I've got a friend who had a hair transplant a few years ago and I could tell where the plugs of hair that were used in the transplant came from.
[11.] plug-compatible a. Computing, pertaining to or designating computing equipment which is operationally compatible with a given device or system to which it may be plugged in; also as n., a plug-compatible device.
[1971Wall St. Jrnl. 4 Feb. 30/2 Some users opt for the guaranteed service, performance and higher price tag that IBM offers, rather than the uncertain glories or the disasters which might result from plug-to-plug compatible independent hardware.] 1971Electronic News 8 Nov. 23/3 D. James Guzy, executive vice-president of the Santa Clara, Calif. *plug-compatible peripheral equipment manufacturer. 1978Times 15 Sept. 21/5 The ‘plug-compatible’ suppliers (who sell peripheral units, add-on memories and most recently central processors which can easily replace IBM equipment). 1979Financial Times 19 Feb. 26/5 It seems that the plug compatibles have found the ideal market. 1985Which Computer? Dec. 117/1 The ‘plug-compatible’ market is big business and savings can be in the order of 10 to 30 per cent.
hence plug-compatibility n.
1981Economist 8 Aug. 67/1 Burroughs..fears that talk of *plug-compatibility might be misinterpreted by customers as a sign that the company will be abandoning its own computer architecture to copy IBM's.
▪ II. plug, v.|plʌg|
[f. plug n.; or immediately a. early mod.Du. pluggen (Plantin), f. plugge plug n. So MLG. pluggen, LG. plüggen, Norw. plugga to plug.]
1. a. trans. To stop, close tightly, or fill (a hole or aperture) with or as with a plug; to drive a plug into. Chiefly with up.
1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 6 Neere unto the North pole men thinking to draw in their breaths, are in danger to have their throats pluggd up with an Isicle. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 213 Divers of their Ships being shot through with great Bullets, for that they could neither plug up the Holes or Breaches, nor free them from Water by their Pumps, were swallow'd up in the devouring and merciless Waves. 1776G. Semple Building in Water 42 We found it advisable to plug up the Pipe. 1833J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 183 In some instances, the holes admit of being plugged with bits of metal. 1849R. T. Claridge Cold Water-cure 147 Sometimes when a tooth is plugged, the pressure on the nerve renders it insupportable. 1878Holbrook Hyg. Brain 39 When a clot of blood plugs up an artery.
b. In wood-engraving: see plug n. 2 a.
1839Chatto Wood Engrav. 645 If a small part be badly engraved, or the block has sustained an injury, the defect may be repaired by inserting a small piece of wood and re-engraving it: this..is technically termed ‘plugging’.
c. To insert a wooden peg or block into (a wall, etc.) to afford a hold for a nail or screw. Also, to insert a fibre or plastic tube or cylinder for the same purpose.
1881Young Ev. Man his Own Mechanic §743 When fixed to a brick wall, the wall must be plugged to take the nails. Ibid. §1275 Due provision having been made for this by ‘plugging’ the wall.
d. To insert as a plug; to drive (something) in.
1857Holland Bay Path xxiv. 281 It goes by wind..and it'll plug a bullet right into a man. 1952Dylan Thomas Let. 21 July (1966) 375 Now it's up to me & him to plug in lots more expenses. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 17 Jan. 14/1 (Advt.), There's no need to rip out your old grass. Plug in Amazoy Zoysia Grass and let it spread into beautiful turf that never needs replacement.
e. (i) trans. To insert (a plug or the like) into a socket; to connect electrically (an appliance or apparatus) by inserting a plug into a socket; also to plug in (trans.), to connect electrically in this way. Also absol., transf., and fig.
1923T. E. Herbert Teleph. xiii. 347 The operator plugs in with the service plug, restores the indicator, and ascertains the number required. 1925P. J. Risdon Crystal Receivers & Circuits 15 A complete set of such coils will thus enable a big range of wave-lengths to be efficiently covered, by plugging in a coil most nearly corresponding to the wave-length required. 1925Scribner's Mag. July 54/2 He wandered in to his radio, lighted the tubes and plugged in the ear phones. 1932Pictorial Weekly 19 Mar. 201/1 Rescue vessels can ‘plug in’ to this buoy, and talk to the men below. 1934Archit. Rev. LXXV. 108/3 (caption) A portable fire that can be ‘plugged in’ to a gas point in bedroom or bathroom. 1948F. Thompson Still glides Stream i. 10 One here and there of her pupils had shown the sudden gleam of comprehension..which..she had referred to..as ‘plugging in’, or ‘taking the bait’. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 15 Mar. 143/1 A large range of implements can be ‘plugged-in’ for doing a number of other jobs. 1965Daily Tel. 1 June 15/8 Extract this Danish machine and plug it into an AC power point. 1970Atlantic Monthly July 88 Five children were plugged into a tape recorder, listening to a story and following it in the books in front of them. 1971[see Jack n.1 15 d]. 1971J. H. Smith Digital Logic ii. 18 A power supply..with facilities for plugging at least ten modules into it at any one time. 1972Sci. Amer. Apr. 13/1 (Advt.), The most advanced automotive check-up in the world today... Your car will actually be plugged into a computer. 1972National Observer (U.S.) 27 May 22/3 They tell us that to be entirely into the new literary life, one must in some way be plugged into films. 1972Sci. Amer. July 105/1 All 10 digits are plugged into the expression ABC × DE = FGH × IJ. 1977Ibid. Aug. 80/3 The placental embryo..is plugged into the maternal blood supply for nourishment.
(ii) intr. To be, or to be capable of being, plugged in or into. Also fig.
1956T. E. Ivall Electronic Computers iv. 45 When the unit is put into the patch panel it also plugs into a d.c. amplifier at the rear. 1963Which? Dec. 378/2 The Timac plugged directly into the mains socket. 1974Physics Bull. Sept. 401/1 This assembly plugs into a choice of sockets dependent upon the position in which the instrument is to be used.
1903Westm. Gaz. 20 Jan. 9/2 Directly the sub-stations shut down, the Battery-room attendant ‘plugs in’ and takes the load for lighting purposes, for driving fans for ventilation purposes.
f. trans. To cut a cylindrical core from. Also absol. U.S.
1874‘Uncle Bob’ Lett. to Children 19, I used to be a great hand to go into the patch, plug 'em before they were ripe, and then turn the cut side down. a1910‘Mark Twain’ Autobiogr. (1924) I. 111, I know how to tell when it [sc. a watermelon] is ripe without ‘plugging’ it. 1948Chicago Tribune 25 June ii. 3/3 The safest and best way to tell quality is to ‘plug’ the melon. 1969Times 22 July (Moon Suppl.) p. i/1 It's a very soft surface, but here and there where I plug with the contingency sample collector, I run into a very hard surface.
g. slang. To copulate with.
1901Farmer & Henley Slang V. 231/1 Plug,..to copulate. 1977Amer. Speech 1975 L. 64 ‘I plugged her last night.’ (male use).
h. to plug off or plug back: to seal off (an oil well or a rock formation) by inserting a plug. Also absol.
1919Summary of Operations Calif. Oil Fields (Calif. State Mining Bureau) V. i. 9 Plugged off. Describes the condition existing when fluid encountered in a lower part of a well has been excluded from a higher part of the well by placing an effective plug between the two places. 1924L. C. Uren Textbk. Petroleum Production Engin. ix. 276 It will be important..to estimate carefully the volume of that part of the well which it is desired to plug off. 1938C. P. Parsons in A. E. Dunstan et al. Sci. of Petroleum I. ix. 472/2 The amount of cement left in the bottom of the tubing depends upon the amount of hole to be plugged back. 1938Wilde & Moore in Ibid. xi. 573/2 Having located the water, it is important to plug off the water sand. 1976L. St. Clair Fortune in Death i. 8 We've wasted enough time fishing drill pipe out of this hole. Let's plug back and slant-drill.
2. trans. To put a bullet into, to shoot. Also, to fire (a bullet) into (example fig.). slang.
1870J. C. Duval Adv. Big-Foot Wallace xix. 99 Just at that instant Jeff plugged him with a half-ounce bullet. 1882E. W. Hamilton Diary 27 Aug. (1972) I. 326 He has had a narrow escape of losing an eye, having been plugged in the face by Newport while grouse driving at Wharncliffe's. 1888‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xxxi, If that old horse they put you on had bobbed forward..you'd have got plugged instead. 1891‘Mark Twain’ in ‘Twain’ & Howells Mark Twain—Howells Lett. (1960) II. 635, I will plug into you at short range the first chapter of my new book. 1900Westm. Gaz. 10 Jan. 8/2, I got plugged a few yards in front of the line, and two of my fellows pulled me back, as I could not walk. 1901Munsey's Mag. XXV. 340/1 ‘I'll wait till I get within twenty yards of the beggar,..Then I'll plug 'im!’ 1904[see lam n.3]. 1924[see frame n. 2]. 1936G. Greene Gun for Sale i. 22 Don't say a word or I'll plug you... I don't care a damn if I plug one of you. 1969C. Burke God is Beautiful, Man (1970) 28 They told their old man..if they didn't bring Ben back Simon would get plugged. 1973W. M. Duncan Big Timer xxi. 137 That Carver packed a wallop, didn't he? I should have plugged him sooner.
3. trans. To strike with the fist. Also, with a missile. slang.
1875P. Ponder Kirkcumdoon 86 (E.D.D.) Great uproar, and cries of ‘Sit doon, Matthy!’ ‘Plug him!’ ‘Stick in, Matthy!’ 1891Athenæum 28 Nov. 713/2 ‘To plug a man in the eye’ is a common enough piece of slang. 1971Wodehouse Much obliged, Jeeves xvi. 169 Sidcup got a black eye. Somebody plugged him with a potato.
4. intr.
a. To ‘stick to it’, keep on persistently or doggedly; to plod. Freq. const. with advbs.
b. To labour with pistonlike strokes against resistance. slang.
a.c1865(Remembered on the river at Oxford) ‘Plug, you fellows, plug!’ ‘We plugged for all we were worth’. 1897Outing (U.S.) XXX. 476/1 The crews have rowed in wretched form,..their ability to plug has enabled them to hang on to the leaders in bulldog fashion. 1900G. Ade More Fables 44 Any Husband could..get up every Morning ready to Plug for a Renaissance of their Early love. Ibid. 146 You take a Man who is Plugging along on a Salary. 1911E. Ferber Dawn O'Hara vii. 99 Lots of us are pluggin' an' savin' in the hopes that some day we'll have money enough to get back at some people we know. 1947K. Tennant Lost Haven (1968) vi. 88 He was a mug to plug away at yet another new boat. 1953Wodehouse Performing Flea 58, I am plugging along with Hot Water and have done 60,000 words. 1954A. Huxley Let. 16 Sept. (1969) 711 Lacking the ability to write a text book, I have to plug on at these other, more precarious forms of literature. 1973Philadelphia Inquirer 7 Oct. 19 Ronnie's not a quitter. He really plugs. 1977World of Cricket Monthly June 11/1 Australia's bowlers plugged away, with Max Walker breaking through when Surrey were 2 wickets down for 147, and snaring 3 quick wickets for only 6 runs.
b.1898G. W. Steevens With Kitchener to Khartum 310 The steamers..plug-plugged their steady way up the full Nile. 1898― Egypt xix. 216 We are plugging past a twenty-foot river bank, semaphored with miles of water⁓hoists. 1898Cycling vi. 27 When a beginner attempts to cycle up-hill at anything like a fast pace, he invariably develops a plugging action.
5. To prevent (a person) from carrying out a project by anticipating him or depriving him of his opportunity; to block (an action or design). U.S.
1880Scribner's Mag. 492/2 One fisherman ‘plugs’ another when he puts out from shore and casts in ahead of him. 1896G. Ade Artie xii. 110, I wouldn't like to start in and plug his game.
6. intr. (for refl.). To stick or jam; to become obstructed.
1902S. E. White Blazed Trail xlviii. 338 Several times the jam started, but always ‘plugged’ before the motion had become irresistible. 1964M. Gowing Britain & Atomic Energy 1939–1945 viii. 222 The membranes must not ‘plug’, that is, get blocked.
7. a. trans. To popularize (a song) by having it played many times; to present (something) repeatedly; to publicize, emphasize, draw attention to. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1906H. Green At Actors' Boarding House 68, I ain't got any music, so you kin plug any publisher's stuff an' play what you wanter. 1927Daily Express 9 Nov. 9/4, I..thought it would encourage them to plug my songs. 1930[see cut v. 55 f]. 1940Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. Oct. 118 The technique of ‘plugging’ trivial news about important personages. 1959Elizabethan June 27/2, I gather from John that the other papers have plugged the crisis for all they're worth. 1967Wall St. Jrnl. 12 Jan. 1/4 Mrs. Glick..now plugs Excedrin on television. 1970G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard i. 21 I'm obliged to listen to clients plugging their virility as relevant facts. 1975C. James Fate of Felicity Fark v. 45 She found the concentration of rehearsal More challenging by far than plugging Persil.
b. intr. to plug for: to act in support of; to make favourable statements about. U.S. colloq.
1927Amer. Speech II. 256/1 ‘Pluggers’ or ‘rooters’, ‘plug’ or ‘root’ for their side or for their favorite players. 1929D. Runyon in Hearst's Internat. July 58/1 Miss Missouri Martin keeps plugging for Dave the Dude with Miss Billy Perry. 1932Sun (Baltimore) 27 Apr. 1/1 The secret subsidizing of newspaper financial writers to ‘plug’ for stocks in process of manipulation upward. 1943Amer. Speech XVIII. 249 Judge James A. Chase, a Cashmere citizen, who had visited the Vale of Kashmir, plugged for the new name and won. 1974News & Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina) 7 Apr. a–14/3 At present he is plugging for a written history of Dillon County.
Add:[6.] b. Golf. pass. and intr. Of a golf ball: to become stuck or embedded where it lands. Also transf., of the player.
1937P. Lawless Golfer's Compan. 373 Plugged!.. My ball disappeared in the mud and could not be found. 1959Times 29 May 5/1 Sewell got a brave half..after being plugged in the bunker. 1987Golf World Aug. 42/2 After a hooked drive on the fifth hole, which apparently plugged in the rough, Stadler..awarded himself a free drop. |