stog v DC ~ Nfld ([1836], 1937) for sense 1; cp EDD v1 2 'to surfeit with food' W for sense 3; OED v2 1, EDD v1 1 Bk Ha So D Co for sense 4.
1 To fill the chinks in a log-house with moss; to insulate a house; CHINSE.
1836 [WIX]2 53 The structure of the winter tilt, the chimney of which is of upright studs, stuffed or 'stogged' between with moss. [1886] LLOYD 76 They are merely log huts, but are always rendered warm and comfortable. The chinks between the logs are calked, or 'stogged,' as they say, with moss previously gathered and dried. 1895 HOWLEY MS Reminiscences 7 Before the weather became too cold and stormy we constructed a very substantial log tilt composed of old sleepers stood upright and well stogged with moss. 1897 J A Folklore x, 211 ~ To stuff moss in the seams between the studs in houses, barns, or cellars. In this sense it seems peculiar to Newfoundland. 1906 GRENFELL 176-7 By the Christmas following Rube had up a tiny studded house, well stogged with dry moss and shingles, clapboarded, and only waiting a mistress. 1937 DEVINE 49 ~ To chinse moss between the logs in a log house to keep out draughts. T 43/7-64 Now this is where the shim comes in—stoggin' these camps. You stog 'em with moss. We'd have possibly a man or two away pickin' moss, and a man or two stoggin' as 'cordin' as the carpenters would put on a log, you stog the seams. 1973 Evening Telegram 25 Oct, p. 3 It might be worth anyone's while even in this day and age to have [a] bedchamber that is not stuffed and stogged up with insulation and double window glass.
2 To block or clog an aperture; STOP v.
T 158-65 Next night or two we went over, you know, we stogged his funnel. Got up in the morning—black with smoke. T 360/1-67 And I remember once somebody climbed up on top of the place in the night, an' stogged the pipe, an' in the morning this person got up; he'd smoked her out! P 198-67 The sink is all stogged up. C 71-125 To stog means to plug up an opening. For example a person suffering from a head cold is likely to say that his nose is stogged or stogged up.
3 To fill completely.
C 66-3 I wouldn't go so far as to stog a cellar with him. P 130-67 Stog the fire; it may stay in till we get back. P 108-70 I'm stogged to the gills [with food].
4 To be stuck in boggy ground or snow.
1897 J A Folklore x, 211 Stogged ... describes one stuck in the snow, mire, or a bog. 1937 DEVINE 49 ~ To be caught in boggy ground—said of cattle, especially. T 12-64 Old Kitty Dobbin from Leatherhill came, With her hammer and saw, chisel and plane; / The wind from the westward began to blow / And old Kitty Dobbin got stogged in the snow. M 69-6 If hard frosts did not come before the snow to freeze the bogs, lungets had to be laid across them to keep the animals from getting stogged. C 70-21 There is a boggy, dangerous spot about a mile or so from our settlement where ... a cow became trapped in the mire, i.e. was stogged.
