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▪ I. lugger, n.1|ˈlʌgə(r)|
[f. lug v. + -er1.]
One who lugs; spec. an oarsman who depends on mere strength. Also in beef lugger, ship lugger.
1611Cotgr., Tireur, a drawer, puller,..lugger, tugger. 1881Daily News 14 Feb. 5/5 His Australian competitor, though by no means such a mere ‘lugger’ as his country⁓man Trickett, trusts much less to..mechanical finish. 1904Sun (N.Y.) 5 Aug. 1 It was reported that beef luggers in all the cold storage plants were to be called out. Ibid. 11 Aug. 3 The men who are called ship luggers, and who load meat aboard the steamships.
▪ II. lugger, n.2|ˈlʌgə(r)|
[perh. f. lug in lugsail; but cf. Du. logger, perh. f. MDu. loggen, luggen to fish with a drag-net.]
a. (See quot. 1867.)
1757Gentl. Mag. Jan. 45/2 On the 25th inst. a French lugger drove a vessel ashore at Hastings. 1795Hull Advertiser 25 July 2/4. 1809 J. Adams Wks. (1854) IX. 317 In a general impressment..it cost the nation, in cutters, luggers, press-gangs,..a hundred pounds for every man they obtained. 1817W. Irving in Life & Lett. (1864) I. 385 He..is as slow getting under way, as a Dutch lugger. 1837Marryat Dog-fiend xxx, The lugger pulled eighteen oars, was clinker built, and very swift. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Lugger, a small vessel with..four-cornered cut sails, set fore and aft, and [sic] may have two or three masts. 1884Pae Eustace 217, I am captain of the lugger you see yonder.
b. attrib. (appositive) and Comb.
1801Nelson in A. Duncan Life (1806) 194 Flats (lugger-rigged). 1819J. H. Vaux Mem. I. 70 A beautiful French lugger privateer, of fourteen guns.
▪ III. † ˈlugger, v. Obs.
[f. lug v. + -er5.]
trans. a. To drag or carry about. b. To tease.
1654R. Flecknoe Ten Years Trav. 78 Apes which had young, with 2 or 3 claspt about their neck,..which they went thus luggering, till [etc.]. 1679Crowne Ambit. Statesman iii. 32 When e're I see Authority Lugger a heavy fool upon her sholders Before me. 1782E. N. Blower Geo. Bateman II. 174 The child don't like to lugger folks. |