A dialectal or archaic term whose precise meaning varies, potentially referring to a peg, nail, or a piece that blocks or projects.
Possibly from Old English or Proto-Germanic roots related to pegs or projecting objects, though the etymology is uncertain and the word appears mainly in historical or regional texts.
Words with unclear etymologies like 'gog' show how much English vocabulary we've lost or transformed—it might have been common in medieval workshops but nobody wrote down what it meant clearly enough for us to be sure today.
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