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▪ I. lug, n.1 Now dial.|lʌg|
Also 3–6 lugge, 8–9 lugg.
[Of obscure etymology: there is no clear affinity of sense with lug v. or log n.1]
1. A long stick or pole; the branch or limb of a tree. (See also log n.1 1 d.)
a1250Owl & Night. 1609 An evereuch man is widh me wrodh, An me mid stone and lugge threteth. 1447Yatton Churchw. Acc. (Somerset Rec. Soc.) 88 It. to Iohn Styvor makyng of to baner luggus..iiijd. 1567Turberv. Epit. etc. 26 b, And from the bodies [of pines and oaks] the boughes and loftie lugges they beare. 1609C. Butler Fem. Mon. v. (1623) M, These sides are fitly made of inch-board, or of a cleaft Lug of Withie or other wood. 1795Billingsley Agric. Surv. Somerset (1797) 88 Covering the same with strong lugs or poles. 1853Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XIV. ii. 441 In Herefordshire the ordinary mode of gathering the fruit is by sending men to beat the trees with long slender poles or rods,..these poles are provincially termed ‘polting lugs’.
2. A measure
a. of length: a pole or perch, varying according to local custom; usually of 16½ feet, sometimes of 15, 18, 20, or 21 feet (? = great lug in quot. 1623).
1562–3Act 5 Eliz. c. 4 §11 What Wages every Woorck⁓man..shall take..for ditching..by the Rodd, Perche, Lugg, Yard [etc.]. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. x. 11 For the large leape which Debon did compell Coulin to make, being eight lugs of grownd. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey ii. iv. 52 Sixteen Foote ½ make a Pearch, Pole, or Lug. 1623Boyle in Lismore Papers (1886) II. 73, I paid..eight pounds ster: for every great Lugg of the playn worck of the town wall. 1681Glanvill Sadducismus ii. (ed. 2) 176 [He] followed the Apparition about ten Lugs (that is Poles) farther into the Copse. 1771Antiq. Sarisb. 91 This [channel] was brought down..about 20 lug below the Bridge. 1811T. Davis Agric. Wilts. App. 268 A Lug..is of three lengths in this county: 15, 18, and 16½ feet. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Lug..in Gloucestershire, a land-measure of six yards.
b. of surface: a square pole or perch; † acre by lug = lug-acre (see 3).
1602Burford Reg. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) Varr. Collect. I. 164 Mowinge of barley for every acre by lugge not above vd. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict., Acre, a Measure of Land, consisting of..an hundred and sixty square Lug or Perch of Land. 1772Ann. Reg. 115 He had inclosed with a hedge about four lug of the land. 1794J. Clark View Agric. Herefordsh. 31 One standard is left to each forty-nine square yards, here called a lugg. 1845Morn. Chron. 22 Nov. 5/2, I have seen a sack [of potatoes] a lug on some land,—that is 160 sacks per acre. 1885Berksh. Vicar in Standard 17 Aug. 2/2 Allotments of twenty luggs each (i.e. one-eighth of an acre).
3. attrib. and Comb.: † lug-acre, an acre based on that value of the pole or perch to which the name lug was locally applied; † lug-fall, the length of a lug; a pole or perch; lug-pole U.S. (= sense 1).
1635Burford Reg. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) Varr. Collect. I. 169 Wages... For reaping and binding of wheate..for every *lugg aker not above ijs. vjd.
1863J. Scott Com. Bench Repts. XII. 91 [Somerset Law Case.] The right..to enter..upon a part or strip, to wit, a *lug fall [margin, A perch] of the said close.
1773Mass. Gaz. 4 Feb. (Suppl.) 1/2 A Defect in the Chimney, by Reason of the Wooden *Lug-pole burning out. 1848D. Drake Pioneer Life Kentucky (1870) v. 107 The tea kettle swung from a wooden ‘lug pole’.
▪ II. lug, n.2 Chiefly Sc. and north.|lʌg|
Also (6 Sc. louge), 6–7 lugg(e.
[Of obscure etymology.
As a synonym of ear, it first appears early in the 16th c., and in colloquial Sc. use has entirely superseded the older word. Presumably this application is a transferred use of a word that existed earlier with some other meaning. It is possible that the sense ‘ear-flap of a cap’, which is the earliest represented in our quots., may really be prior to the sense ‘ear’; for similar transferences of words from parts of clothing to the parts of the body covered, cf. breech, crown, sole. If so, the word may perh. be of Scandinavian origin, with a general sense of ‘something that can be pulled or laid hold of’, specialized differently in Sw. lugg forelock, with which cf. Eng. dial. (Sheffield, North Derb., etc.) ‘to pull (somebody's) lugs’, meaning not as in Scotland, the ears, but the hair. (See lug v.)]
1. One of the flaps or lappets of a cap or bonnet, covering the ears.
1495Ld. Treas. Acc. Scotl. (1877) I. 225 Item, fra Henry Cant, ij cappis wyth luggis; price xxxvjs. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 43 Euyrie scheiphird hed ane horne spune in the lug of there bonet. 1737Ramsay Sc. Prov. (1797) 35 He has a bee in his bannet lug. 1822Goldie Poems 115 (E.D.D.) Cock yer bonnet hie, An' frae its lug let tartans flee.
2. a. = ear n.1 1 and 3. Now colloq. or joc.
By the 19th cent. it had become the only word in use in Sc. ear having become obs. exc. in combination (though it is now standard). Eng. writers of 16–17th c. use lug as a slang or jocular synonym (see quots. 1592 and 1625, and cf. b).
1507Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 437 That na craftis⁓men by hidis bot as the law requires, that is to say, the louge and the horne elik lang. 1515Edin. Counc. Rec. in A. Laing Lindores Abbey xxii. (1876) 297 To be scurgeit to the gallows and thair his lug takkit to the beame. 1549Compl. Scot. vi. 64 Kyng midas gat tua asse luggis on his hede be cause of his auereis. 1581Satir. Poems Reform. xliv. 109 Sathan in ȝour knauish luggis bleu. 1592Greene Conny-catching Wks. (Grosart) XI. 62 Then the gentle⁓woman let loose his eares, and let slip his head, and away went he home with his bloody lugges. 1625B. Jonson Staple News v. i, A fine round head when those two lugs are off To trundle through a pillory. 1659Shirley Content. Ajax & Ulysses i, If you have a mind to lose one of your lugs,..Talk on. 1721Ramsay Lucky Spence xiii, I..Roun'd in his lug, that there was a Poor country Kate. 1786Burns Scotch Drink 4 Let other Poets..grate our lug. 1824Scott Redgauntlet let. xii, Dinna blaw in folk's lugs that gate. 1893Stevenson Catriona 52, I heard the balls whistle in our lugs. 1908Old-Lore Misc. I. vii. 270 Lang an last, da laird grippit him be da lug. 1916‘Taffrail’ Pincher Martin ii. 28 Give 'im a clip under the lug! 1922Banffshire Jrnl. 26 Sept. 6 An' hame-brewn sets th' lugs a crackin'. 1922Joyce Ulysses 192 Has the wrong sow by the lug. Ibid. 261 Cowley's red lugs and Adam's apple in the door of the sheriff's office. 1939― Finnegans Wake 500 The snare drum! Lay yer lug till the groun.
†b. In other than Sc. use, sometimes taken in specialized meanings: (a) the lobe of the ear; (b) a large ugly ear. Obs.
16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. v. iv. 2232 Like a great swine by his long leane eard lugges. 1611Cotgr., Le mol de l'oreille, the lug or list of th' eare. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. viii. (1653) 158 The prominency of our Eares serve also for a defence [etc.]..all which commodities our mickle-wise Mothers defraud us of by their nice dislike of Lugs, and as they call them in reproach, Prickeares. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Lug, the tip of the Ear. 1764O'Hara Midas 60 Dare you think your clumsey lugs [printed lungs] so proper to decide, as The delicate ears of Justice Midas?
c. In phrases similar to those s.v. ear n.1 Also, fig. to get one's lug in one's loof, to be severely taken to task; by the lug and the horn, by main force; to hang by the lug of, to keep a firm hold of.
a1652Brome Mad Couple iii. i. Wks. 1873 I. 47 You..were found by my servants at Luggs with your brace of Corps bearers. a1693M. Bruce Good News in Evil T. (1708) 54 Since the Cause is put in his Hand, ye have ay good Reason to hing by the Lug of it. 1744Adam Smith in Life W. Cullen (1832) I. 481, I shall get my lug in my lufe, as we say, for what I have written. 1770Bp. Forbes Jrnls. (1886) 300 The poor Brutes..cock'd their Lugs when they came in sight of Maryburgh. 1828Moir Mansie Wauch xx. 291 We carried them by the lug and the horn before a justice of peace. 1883Thomson Leddy May 109 (E.D.D.) Up in debt owre the lugs, he is happy for a'.
3. An object resembling the external ear.
a. The handle of a pitcher, etc. Also techn. in various uses, denoting an appendage by which an object may be lifted or suspended; cf. ear n.1 8, 8 b, 13.
1624Invent. in Archæologia XLVIII. 151 One copper pan with 2 lugges. a1693Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xlv, Instructors of Children shake the heads of their Disciples, as one would do a Pot in holding it by the Lugs. 1794W. Felton Carriages (1801) II. Suppl. 51 Sewing on one old lug or flap..0. 0. 6. 1819Scott Leg. Montrose iv, The lady's auld posset dish, that wants the cover and one o' the lugs. 1862Macm. Mag. Oct. 510 That, when they ‘pree’ or examine a corner or lug of their nets, they may find it glitter with the silvery sheen of the fish. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Lugs, the ears of a bomb-shell, to which the hooks are applied in lifting it. 1871Owen Mod. Artill. 98 There are three natures of mortar shells..the two higher natures have either lugs or lewis holes. 1881Whitehead Hops 69 A lug or ear is left on each side of the mouth of the pocket. 1895Month Sept. 53 Its [the haddock's] head had been cut off, and it hung by the lug, or ear.
b. = ear n.1 9.
1833Holland Manuf. Metal II. 215 In the centre of this fulcrum are two projecting lugs, one on each side. 1855Hopkins Organ ii. 16 The fork-shaped piece of wood that projects from the hanging end of the feeder [in the blowing-action], called the lug. 1875Carpentry & Join. 33 A neat iron tank, with lugs to allow of its being screwed to a bench. 1881Greener Gun 262 The lugs of the barrels..should be oiled occasionally. 1882Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 39 Top⁓gallant yards are..fitted with an iron band and lug round the centre of the yard. 1897Encycl. Sport I. 271/2 The [bicycle] Frame is made of steel tubes, inserted at their points of junction into hollow stampings or castings of metal, known as ‘lugs’.
c. The side-wall (of a fire-place or other recess); a (chimney) corner.
1784Burns Ep. to Davie i, Frosty winds blaw..Ben to the chimla lug. 1843J. Ballantine Gaberlunzie's Wallet xii. 276 He likit the lug o' the kitchen fire best.
d. to put (or pile) on lugs, to put on airs. U.S. slang.
1889K. Munroe Golden Days xvii. 188 If you notice me..piling on any lugs..you just bump me down hard. 1896Ade Artie vi. 54 The family did n't put on no such lugs in them days. 1903A. Bennett Leonora iv. 106 American women..put on too much lugs, at any rate for an Englishman. 1905Springfield (Mass.) Weekly Republ. 15 Sept. 12 Dr. Hall puts on no ‘lugs’, and is not above sitting on a cracker barrel in a country grocery for a chat with old acquaintances. 1920S. Lewis Main St. 326 Oh, the lugs he puts on—belted coat, and piqué collar.
e. A demand for borrowed or exacted money. Esp. in phr. to put the lug on, to extort, to put pressure on. U.S. slang.
1929D. Runyon in Hearst's Internat. Aug. 73/2 Why do you not put the lug on him? 1935A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 84/2 Out on the lug, engaged in begging racket. Ibid. 93/1 Put the lug on, to borrow; to beat up a racketeer with blackjack or brass knuckles for muscling in on forbidden territory. 1936Kansas City (Missouri) Star 15 Oct. 6/1 Indiana uses the ‘Lug’. 1938Kansas City (Missouri) Times 14 Feb. 1/6 The Democratic organization's lug on all city and county employees—for its campaign fund..has been started. 1940Topeka (Kansas) State Jrnl. 26 Mar. 1/8 Shakedowns in Topeka are known to have ranged from $20 to $50 monthly, depending on the amount of illegal business done by the individuals on whom the lug was put. 1973M. Truman Harry S. Truman vii. 129 My father also knew, from his inside contacts with Missouri Democrats, that the governor..was ‘putting the lug’ (to use Missouri terminology) on state employees to contribute to his campaign fund.
4. Tobacco trade (see quots.).
1835J. Martin New Gazetteer Virginia 175 An eminent tobacco manufacturer of Richmond has offered the inhabitants of this district to take all of their tobacco, (lugs included) at $10 a hundred. 1851Southern Planter (Richmond, Virginia) June 192/1 We quote lugs $5 25 to $7. 1888Paton & Dittmar in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 424/2 The leaves [of tobacco] are..sorted into qualities, such as ‘lugs’, or lower leaves, ‘firsts’ and ‘seconds’. 1896P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia I. 442 The lowest grade was known as lugs as early as 1686.
5. Chiefly N. Amer. slang. Used contemptuously of a person: a lout, a sponger.
1931Broadway Brevities 19 Oct. 2/1 Is his only sin the fact that he was born a lug? 1935A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 73/2 Lug, an incapable person who frequently borrows small sums of money. 1936R. Chandler Black Mask June 24/1 The girl snapped at me: ‘Is this lug your partner?’ 1952Landfall VI. 265 Now there's your sermon!.. No, no, no. These lugs would never understand. 1953K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xxix. 284 The big fellows slip through my fingers, leaving some tough lug to take the rap. 1968B. Turner Sex Trap xi. 98 ‘The other lug's at June's,’ Louis said. 1973Hansard (Canada) 20 Mar. 2388/1, I will stand down when Mr. Speaker tells me to, not when you lugs tell me to. 1973‘B. Mather’ Snowline x. 116 Any other names you can come up with?.. You don't owe these lugs anything.
6. attrib. and Comb., as (sense 1) lug-cap; (sense 2) lug-drum, lug-trumpet; (sense 3) lug-end, lug-knee; lug-bab Sc., an ear-drop (cf. bob n.1 3); lug-bolt, a cylindrical bolt, to which is welded a flat iron bar (Cent. Dict.); lug-chair, an easy-chair with side-pieces for the head; lug-haul v., to pull by the ears; lughole dial. and colloq., ear-hole; lug-knot, a knot of ribbons worn at the ear; lug-mark, n. and v. = ear-mark; lug sole N. Amer. (see quot. 1961).
1725Cock-laird in Orpheus Caledonius, Craig-claiths, and *lug-babs, And rings twa or three.
1898Westm. Gaz. 4 Mar. 3/1 The black skull cap of silk or cotton, the common *lug-cap [etc.].
1901N. Munro in Blackw. Mag. Mar. 347/1 Humped in his *lug-chair, he would forget his duty.
1865Young Pict. 169 (E.D.D.) The whistlin' and the skirlin'..Rings through ane's *lug-drum like a bullet.
1894S. R. Bottone Electr. Instr. Making (ed. 6) App. 228 These plates must be perforated all over..to within about 3/4 in. of the top, or *lug-end.
1829Hogg Sheph. Cal. I. vii. 201 Speak plain out, else I'll have thee *lug-hauled, thou dwarf!
1895J. S. Fletcher Wonderful Wapentake 72 I'll come..and pelt thi *lughoil for tha. 1898B. Kirkby Lakeland Words 96 Stuff thi lug-whols wi' woo. 1966F. Shaw et al. Lern Yerself Scouse 20 Is lugole, his ear. 1973Times 25 Aug. 10/8 A session with Hello, Cheeky is like being exposed to some noisy, rude and unstoppable urchin who wins you round or at least averts a skull-shattering clout about the lughole simply because he will go on regardless.
1874Thearle Naval Archit. 39 Plate XVI. and fig. 7, show the kind known as *lug knees, the lugs being forged to the knee.
17..Muirland Willie xii. in Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1788) I. 9 Our bride's maidens were na few, Wi' tap-knots, *lug-knots, a' in blew.
1685M. Shields Faithf. Contend. (1780) 181 Imprisoning,..*lugg-marking, banishing, and killing. 1802C. Findlater Agric. Surv. Peebles 191 They [lambs] receive..marks cut into the ear with a knife, designed lug mark. 1892Newcastle Daily Jrnl. 28 Mar. 5/6 A Northumberland farmer..in identifying a heifer in dispute, stated that he lug-marked it. 1893Crockett Stickit Minister etc. 68 Every sentence has got the ‘Gallowa' lug-mark’ plain on it.
1961Webster, *Lug sole, a thick rubber sole that has deep indentations in a pattern designed to provide good footing and is used on sport and work shoes. 1970Toronto Daily Star 24 Sept. 16/2 (Advt.), Heavy duty lug sole.
1830J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. (1864) III. 54 Gin he uses a *lug-trumpet.
▪ III. † lug, n.3 Obs.
[Cf. lug v. (sense 3) and n.7; also LG. lug, Du. log, slow, heavy, and log n.1]
Something heavy and clumsy; in quot. applied to a massive bow.
1545R. Ascham Toxoph. i. (Arb.) 28 The other [bowe] is a lugge slowe of cast, folowing the string, more sure for to last, then pleasaunt for to vse. 1565Cooper Thesaurus, Vastus arcus, a lugge, or mighty bigge bowe.
▪ IV. lug, n.4|lʌg|
Also 7 lugg, 7, 9 log.
[Cf. prec.; also lurg.]
A large marine worm (Arenicola marina) which burrows in the sands of our coasts and is much used for bait. Also Comb., as lug-worm; lug-fork (see quot. 1883).
1602Carew Cornwall 34 b, The Lugg is a worme resembling the Tag-worme or Angle-touch, and lying in the ose somewhat deepe, from whence the women digge them vp, and sell them to the Fishermen. 1793Statist. Acc. Scot. V. 277 All the above [fish]..are taken with lines baited with mussels and lug. 1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) III. 409 Lug-worms are marine animals. 1859Atkinson Walks & Talks (1892) 315 A sufficient supply of ‘log’, or the worms found in the sea-sand. 1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 13 Lug Fork..used..for digging large Lugworms.
▪ V. † lug, n.5 Obs.
[Of obscure origin.
The mod. Cornwall dialect has ‘Lugg, the undergrowth of weed in a field of corn’, but the identity of the word is doubtful.]
= flag n.1 1.
1538Turner Libellus, Lug, acorum. 1859W. K. Clay Waterbeach 21 Lugs (flags)..made a coarse kind of hay for foddering their cattle in the winter.
▪ VI. lug, n.6|lʌg|
Short for lug-sail. Also Comb., as lug-rigged adj.; lug-boat (see quot. 1867).
1830Marryat King's Own xiii, Up with the lugs. 1859All Year Round No. 33. 148 My eye lights..on certain lug-rigged boats bobbing along the waves. These are fishing-boats. 1860Nares Seamanship 100 Sling a dipping lug 1/3 from the foremost yard arm; standing lug 1/4. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Lug-boat, the fine Deal boats which brave the severest weather; they are rigged as luggers, and dip the yards in tacking. 1884H. Collingwood Under Meteor Flag 9 She was jogging easily along under her fore and mizzen lugs and a small jib.
▪ VII. lug, n.7|lʌg|
[f. lug v.]
The action of lugging; a rough pull; b. concr. (U.S.) see quot. 1828.
a1616Beaum. & Fl. Nice Valour iii. ii, All but a lugg byth'eare. 1687Miege Fr. Dict., To give one a lug, tirer l'Oreille à quêcun tout d' un coup. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 34. 3/2 I'll soundly lug his ears... The Lug might more be fear'd by you. 1828Webster, Lug,..something heavy to be drawn or carried. (Vulgar.) 1897Webster, Lug, the act of lugging; as, a hard lug; that which is lugged; as, the pack is a heavy lug. (Colloq.)
[b.] For def. read: concr. A thing which is or needs to be lugged, spec. a box or crate used for shipping fruit. Orig. as lug box. N. Amer.
1916B. S. Brown Mod. Fruit Marketing i. 15 If they do not care to take the regular packing box into the field, they supply what is known as the ‘lug’ box holding about 50 pounds each. 1921U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 1196. 29 The lug box is used very extensively in the West for wine grapes. These lugs are..designed to hold from 20 to 40 pounds of grapes. 1929Ibid. No. 1579. 6 California avocadoes are shipped in three different sizes of crates known as the lug, the half lug, and the flat. The lug..holds about 2 dozen medium to large fruits. 1949Los Angeles Times 2 July 5/4 It takes an hour for a lug of grapes to pass through the [precooling] tunnel. 1952J. Steinbeck East of Eden xxi. 246 You can buy fruit..for two bits a lug. 1977Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 17 July 9/2 A crate of lettuce and two lugs of tomatoes. 1992D. Morgan Rising in West i. iii. 58 There was a café across the street and outside it a truck piled high with wooden lugs of grapes.
▪ VIII. lug, v.|lʌg|
Also 4 logge, 4–8 lugg(e.
[Prob. of Scandinavian origin; cf. Sw. lugga to pull a person's hair, f. lugg forelock, also nap of cloth.
Normally an ON. *lugg might be cogn. w. a vb. *lǫggva:—OTeut. *lauwan, represented only by MDu. lauwen, gelauwen to snatch at, seize.]
1. trans. To pull, give a pull to, to pull by (the ear, hair, etc.); to tease, worry, bait (a bear, bull, etc.). Obs. exc. dial.
In South Yorkshire and the adjacent counties the most common use is in the sense ‘to pull the hair of (a person)’.
1390Gower Conf. III. 149 Be the chyn and be the cheke Sche luggeth him riht as hir liste. 1399Langl. Rich. Redeles ii. 173 This lorell that ladde this loby awey..was ffelliche ylauȝte and luggid fful ylle. 1533J. Heywood Pardoner & Friar (1830) B iij, Leue thy railynge..Or by Iys Ish lug the by the swete eares. 1621–23Middleton & Rowley Changeling ii. i. 81 Like a common Garden-bull, I do but take breath to be lugg'd again. 1647Trapp Comm. Matt. x. 6 These also [sc. swine] when lugged..will hie to their home. 1678R. L'Estrange Seneca's Mor. (1702) 242 He was Lugg'd and Tumbled by the Rabble. 1682Otway Venice Pres. iii. i. Wks. 1727 II. 298 I'll have my Footmen lug you, you Cur. 1693Dryden Persius Sat. i. 277 To see a Strumpet tear A Cynick's Beard, and lug him by the Hair. c1720Pope Let. to Earl Burlington Wks. 1737 VI. 20 Mr. Lintott lugg'd the reins, stopt short, and broke out, ‘Well Sir, how far have you gone?’ 1775Francis Lett. (1901) I. 231 Some with Pincers pulling out their own Beards, and Lugging their Ears. 1805W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. III. 64 The dog..still fawns on the master who is lugging his ears. 1833Marryat P. Simple xxviii, So saying, he lugged me by the ear, upon which I knocked him down for his trouble.
2. intr. To pull, tug. Of a horse: To press heavily on (the bit or reins).
a1375Lay Folks Mass Bk. App. iv. 350 Wiþ his teth anon He logged þat al in synder gon lasch. a1550Christis Kirke Gr. vii, Lord, than how they luggit! 1598Hakluyt's Voy. (1599) I. 601 This huge and monstrous galliasse, wherein were contained three hundred slaues to lug at the oares. 1876Browning Pacchiarotto xxi, A whip awaits shirkers and shufflers Who slacken their pace, sick of lugging At what don't advance for their tugging. 1894Crocker Educ. Horse 57 A colt thoroughly bitted with this bridle will never lug on the reins. Ibid. 133 A horse that lugs on the bit.
†b. To take a pull at (liquor, the breast). Also trans. To pull at (the breast). Obs.
1577Harrison England ii. xviii. (1877) i. 295 How our maltbugs lug at this liquor. a1591H. Smith Serm. (1622) 467 When we have lugged the brest almost drie. 1615Crooke Body of Man 969 That he might cease to be trouble⁓some to his mother, and not lie alwaies lugging at her brests. 1617J. Moore Twofold Cord Consolat. ii. 43 The brests of the world, (which we alwayes would be lugging).
c. To move about, along, heavily and slowly; to drag. rare now only techn.
In South Yorkshire, etc. a comb is said to ‘lug’ when it meets with resistance in passing through the hair.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 443 As þat lyftande lome [sc. the Ark] luged aboute. 1690Dryden Don Sebastian iv. i, My flagging Soul flyes under her own pitch, Like Fowl in air too damp, and lugs along, As if she were a body in a body. 1841Savage Dict. Printing 446 When balls stick together in distributing they are said to lug. 1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 78 When rollers are tacky or stick together they are said to lug.
3. trans. To pull along with violent effort; to drag, tug (something heavy). Also with advs. (cf. 5). † to lug forth, absol. (nonce-use) = to lug out (5 b).
c1400Destr. Troy 11029 Þe Mirmydons,..Lepyn to þere lord, lugget hym away. Ibid. 12323 The lady þat the lede lugget of þe toure. 1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Cœnum, Ineluctabile cœnum, out of whiche one can not lugge his legges. 1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619) 114 They lugged me foorth and carried me away. 1682Dryden Epil. to King & Queen 31 Think on your souls; but by your lugging forth, It seems you know how little they are worth. 1684Earl of Roscommon Ess. Transl. Verse (1709) 180 There Sweat, there Strain, there lug the laborious Oar. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. xiii, I lugged this Money home to my Cave, and laid it up. 1728Morgan Algiers II. iv. 291 The Turkish Admiral..caused his Janizaries..to lug along all the heavy Artillery, in Slings, on their Shoulders. 1782C. A. Burney Jrnl. 15 Jan. in Mad. D'Arblay's Early Diary, Mr. Seward came up..lugging a chair into the middle of the room for me. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies 332 She lugged from the fire a huge iron pot. 1898A. Balfour To Arms viii. 90, I was lugged headlong up a steep stair.
b. colloq. with a hyperbolical suggestion of ponderousness in the object.
1652Culpepper Eng. Physic. 260 It is..more convenient..than to lug a Galli-pot along with him. 1717Pope Let. to Lady M. W. Montagu Oct. in M. W. M.'s Lett. (1887) I. 306 Allow me..to lug an old busto behind you, and I shall be proud beyond expression. 1747H. Walpole Lett. H. Mann (1834) II. 196 The Countess used to lug a half-length picture..behind her postchaise. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. i. (1894) 8 Boswell..succeeded in lugging him [Johnson] into the wilds of the Highlands. 1874Helps Soc. Press. vii. 91 And how can you expect that a man who is being lugged forward [etc.]. 1896N. Newnham-Davis Three Men etc. 14 His wife lugged it [a marble god] down here with her yesterday.
4. fig. To introduce in a forced manner, or irrelevantly; = drag v. 2.
1721Amherst Terræ Fil. (1754) App. 320 There is scarcely an enormity in the university, which you have not luggd⁓in. 1774F. Burney Let. to Mr. Crisp Apr. in Early Diary, In Raphael's School of Athens..I like his picture of the..Dwarf, which for fun and spite he lugg'd by head and shoulders into that fine composition. 1901Scotsman 1 Mar. 5/3 Counsel for the other side had lugged in every thing he could to prejudice the case.
5. lug out.
a. trans. See prec. senses and out.
c1400Destr. Troy 6663 Weghis of his aune Luggit hym out to þe laund. 1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 12 The major lugged out the goods. 1840Thackeray Catherine vi, Mr. Brock lugged out five guineas. 1840― Paris Sk.-bk. (1869) 178 The little fellow was obliged to lug out his sword. 1889J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat 23 You land and lug out the tent.
fig.1755Barnaby Bright's New Jrnl. 3, I thought of..lugging out my florid style, which I keep by me for Holidays. 1891Speaker 2 May 532/2 The Quarterly reviewer also lugs out again that ‘very ancient and fish-like’ fallacy which distinguishes between duties and rights.
b. absol. or intr. To draw one's sword; to pull out money or a purse. Now only arch. † Also fig., To launch out in talk.
1684Dryden Prol. to ‘Disappointment’ 62 They caterwaul,..Call sons of whores, and strike, but ne'er lug out. 1700Step to the Bath (ed. 2) 4 They call'd for a Bill, which was presently brought; out I lugg'd, and was going to Discharge, but [etc.]. 1748Smollett Rod. Rand. (1760) I. iv. 17 My poor uncle..was obliged to lug out in his own defence. 1787Minor iv. v. 214, I lugged out in the most feeling manner on my sad situation. 1826Scott Woodst. xxv, Put up both of you, or I shall lug out as thirdsman. 1854W. Collins Hide & Seek I. ix. 287 If the patrons of art don't lug out handsomely to get..that picture ―. 1889Doyle Micah Clark 75, I..might have had more, had that young fool not lugged out at me.
†6. intr. ? To draw swords (= lug out, 5 b); or ? to tussle. Obs.
16051st Pt. Ieronimo iii. ii. 121 Lug with him, boy; honors in bloud best swim.
▪ IX. lug
obs. Sc. form of lodge n. |