plugger

[pluhg-er]

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noun

a person or thing that plugs.

any of various machines or tools that insert, remove, or manipulate plugs or pluglike materials, as a dental instrument used to pack and mold the filling in a tooth cavity.

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Examples from the Web for plugger

Teague replied: “I have to allow an operator or plugger a way to appeal when he believes our requirements are unreasonable.”
Two Texas Regulators Tried to Enforce the Rules. They Were Fired.|David Hasemyer, InsideClimate News|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The idea that a rope could be fed into a cavity with a plugger faster and easier than a tape has long ago been disproved.
Tin Foil and Its Combinations for Filling Teeth|Henry L. Ambler
The quitter can't survive where the plugger has the ghost of a chance.
The Clock that Had no Hands|Herbert Kaufman
Hellman tried to run around, but the Plugger had spread, cutting the room in half.
One Man's Poison|Robert Sheckley

If the gold does not stick directly, put in more cylinders with the plugger, and recommence the condensation with the burnisher.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 467, December 13, 1884|Various
The Plugger poured merrily through the blasted lock, into the room.
One Man's Poison|Robert Sheckley