Definition of plug

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Plug (n.) Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple..

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Tompion :: Tompion (n.) A plug in a flute or an organ pipe, to modulate the tone..
Embolus :: Embolus (n.) A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism..
Plugging :: Plugging (n.) The material of which a plug or stopple is made.
Tamp :: Tamp (v. t.) In blasting, to plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock, in order to prevent the force of the explosion from being misdirected..
Feather :: Feather (n.) A thin wedge driven between the two semicylindrical parts of a divided plug in a hole bored in a stone, to rend the stone..
Stope :: Stopcock (n.) The turning plug, stopper, or spigot of a faucet..
Spigot :: Spigot (n.) A pin or peg used to stop the vent in a cask; also, the plug of a faucet or cock..
Tap :: Tap (n.) A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet..
Plug :: Plug (v. t.) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
Breech Screw :: Breech screw () A strong iron or steel plug screwed into the breech of a musket or other firearm, to close the bottom of the bore..
Tampion :: Tampion (n.) A wooden stopper, or plug, as for a cannon or other piece of ordnance, when not in use..
Plug :: Plug (n.) Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple..
Spile :: Spile (n.) A small plug or wooden pin, used to stop a vent, as in a cask..
Spill :: Spill (n.) A peg or pin for plugging a hole, as in a cask; a spile..
Valve :: Valve (n.) A lid, plug, or cover, applied to an aperture so that by its movement, as by swinging, lifting and falling, sliding, turning, or the like, it will open or close the aperture to permit or prevent passage, as of a fluid..
Tampon :: Tampon (n.) A plug introduced into a natural or artificial cavity of the body in order to arrest hemorrhage, or for the application of medicine..
Hydrant :: Hydrant (n.) A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug.
Plugger :: Plugger (n.) One who, or that which, plugs..
Faucet :: Faucet (n.) A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide..
Top :: Top (n.) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting..
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