Definition of Pluggings

1. plugging [n] - See also: plugging

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pluggings

plugbacks
plugboard
plugboards
plugfest
plugfests
pluggable
plugged
plugged-in
plugged in
plugged nickel
plugger
pluggers
plugging
plugging in
plugging instrument
pluggings (current term)
plughole
plugholes
plugin
plugins
plugless
pluglike
plugola
plugolas
plugs
plugs in
pluguglies
plugugly
plum-fruited yew

Literary usage of Pluggings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Diary Without Dates by Enid Bagnold (1918)
"After his tenth operation two days ago there was a question as to whether he should have his pluggings changed under gas or not. ..."

2. Medico-Chirurgical Transactions by Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London (1878)
"Such pluggings as we occasionally do see in situ, in the down-looping tubes, are generally fibrinous blood casts, and strictly of a nature which the ..."

3. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1880)
"Ergot of rye and vaginal pluggings had proved of only temporary service, and on the occasion of the eighth hemorrhage (thirty-two days after the first), ..."

4. Electric Light, Its Production and Use: Embodying Plain Directions for the by John W. Urquhart (1891)
"Any buckling of the plates, or falling out of pluggings, especially if resting between plates, should be at once remedied. ..."

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