Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
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†NUG, n.2 In Mining: the dull sound made by breaking and subsiding strata (Sc. 1886 J. Barrowman Mining Terms 46).
[Echoic.]
