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vug Cornish mining.|vʌg|
Also vugg, vugh, voog.
[ad. Cornish vooga (Williams); cf. vogal.]
A cavity in a rock; a cave, a hollow.
1818W. Phillips Geol. 207 The sound which the miner hears, may reasonably be accounted for by presuming him to be at work in the immediate neighbourhood of a cavity, or as he terms it, a voog. 1838A. E. Bray Tradit. Devon. III. 256 It is not uncommon in deep mines, where there are what the miners term vugs..to hear loud and frequent explosions. 1855J. R. Leifchild Cornwall Mines 92 Above this mixed mass, and in the level above, a great cavity (called by miners a vugh) was found. 1883Encycl. Brit. XVI. 445/2 Dynamite..is very effective even in ground full of ‘vughs’ or cavities. 1927in M. Terry Through Land of Promise vi. 90 In places there are small ‘vugs’ containing quartz crystals. 1953Amer. Mineralogist XXXVIII. 7 The vugs are commonly almond-shaped and range in size from 10 cm. down to microscopic dimensions. 1976Nature 29 Apr. 813/1 The eye is captivated by the beautiful scanning electron microscope photographs of iron crystals deposited in vugs.
Hence ˈvuggy (also vughy) a., full of cavities.
1864W. W. Smyth Catal. Min. Coll. Museum Pract. Geol. 12 The lode is full of cavities, or ‘vuggy’ (as the Cornish miners term it). 1883Gresley Gloss. Coal-M. 273 Vughy rock, a stratum of cellular structure, or one containing many cavities. 1953Amer. Mineralogist XXXVIII. 7 Some of the replaced rock has a very vuggy texture. 1970[see pyroxferroite]. 1971V. A. Firsoff Gemstones Brit. Isles iv. 25 Amethyst occurs in druses and ‘small vuggy veins’ in the former haematite mines of Mwyndy and Garth Ward. |