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pug and pine

pug and pine noun: a form of wattle and daub used in the early colonization of South Australia, involving light vertical timbers driven into the ground, the gaps being stopped with a kneaded mixture of clay and grass.

Noun

pug and pine (uncountable)

  1. (historical) A form of wattle and daub used in the early colonization of South Australia, involving light vertical timbers driven into the ground, the gaps being stopped with a kneaded mixture of clay and grass.

Questions about pug and pine

What does pug and pine mean?
Pug and pine means a form of wattle and daub used in the early colonization of South Australia, involving light vertical timbers driven into the ground, the gaps being stopped with a kneaded mixture of clay and grass.
What part of speech is pug and pine?
Pug and pine is a noun.

Words near pug and pine in the dictionary

  1. PUFs
  2. puft
  3. puftaloon
  4. puftaloons
  5. pug
  6. pug and pine
  7. pug dog
  8. pug dogs
  9. pug mill
  10. pug mills
  11. pug nose

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