rare–1. Also juge. [f. JUG v.3] The sleeping place of partridges, where they ‘jug’ or nestle together.
1834. Mudie, Brit. Birds (1841), I. 43. The night worms and other small animals … have mostly retired into the earth before the partridges leave their ‘jugg’ or sleeping place.
[Jug, an error for ING, meadow, in 17–18th-c. Dicts., Halliwell, etc.]
