Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
prog .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To prog.
- noun Scot. & Local, U. S. A sharp point; a goad.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Scotland, US, dialect A
sharp point ; agoad . - verb Scotland, US, dialect, transitive To
prick ; togoad .
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Examples
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Word is now that Stephen Harper is going to try to progue Parliament again until after the Olympics rather than submit to an order by the House of Commons to turn over uncensored documents in the Afghan prisoner investigation.
Rumors of a coup the rev. paperboy 2009
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Word is now that Stephen Harper is going to try to progue Parliament again until after the Olympics rather than submit to an order by the House of Commons to turn over uncensored documents in the Afghan prisoner investigation.
Archive 2009-12-01 Dave 2009
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But others, and these were the better ones, were built on the ground, of logs so ponderous and so firmly clamped and dovetailed that the beasts could not pull them down, and once inside a house of this fashion its owners were safe, and could progue at any attackers through the interstices between the logs, and often wound, sometimes make a kill.
The Lost Continent Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne 1905
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As it was, when one of the counsellors kicked another for interrupting him, and the judge threw a calabash at their heads to call them to order, I could not help bursting into a fit of laughter, which was soon quelled when one of my guards gave me a progue with the tip of his spear, to remind me where I was.
Old Jack William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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