tugn.¹

Brit.

/tʌɡ/, U.S.

/təɡ/

Forms: see tug v.; also Middle English teug.

Etymology: < tug v.

1. An act or the action of tugging; a forcible or violent pull; a severe strain or drag.

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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [noun] > pulling > pulling forcibly > an act of

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tug?a1513

lug1897

a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 58 The tarsall gaif him tug for tug.

1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iv. iii. 194 The idle vessell slides the watry lay, Without the blast, or tug, of wind, or Oare.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 486 Downward by the Feet he drew The trembling Dastard: at the Tug he falls.

1754 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 307 Lady Harriet had a tooth drawn by Rutter,..and he gave three tugs before he got it out!

1815 ‘J. Mathers’ Hist. Mr. John Decastro & Brother Bat IV. 111 The door stuck to the posts so fast that I was forced to take three or four good tugs at it before it would come open.

1886 G. M. Fenn Master of Cerem. xiv Morton felt a tug at his line.

2. †Labour, toil (obsolete rare); esp. a determined effort to accomplish or attain something; a hard try; a struggle; a ‘go’.

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the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil

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i-swincheOE

swenchOE

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swingc1000

swinkOE

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cark1330

sweatc1380

the sweat of (one's) brow (brows), facec1380

laboura1382

swengc1400

labouragec1470

toil1495

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tug1504

urea1510

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turmoil1569

moil1612

praelabour1663

fatigue1669

insudation1669

till?a1800

Kaffir work1848

graft1853

workfulness1854

collar-work1871

yakka1888

swot1899

heavy lifting1934

the world > action or operation > endeavour > [noun] > an attempt > hard or vigorous

tug1673

push1746

dasher1884

1504 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 191 It ryseth on my owne mynd to give over grett tuggs of husbandry which I had, and take me to lesse charge.

1673 Ld. Conway in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 141 I shall yet have a tug for the M^r of the Ordnance place.

1764 ‘G. Psalmanazar’ Memoirs 84 I..found it a very hard tug to keep up my credit.

1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 113 The vain low strife That makes men mad—the tug for wealth and power.

a. A strenuous contest between two forces or persons.

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society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > an act or instance of

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strifea1225

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grapple1604

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scuffle1641

agon1649

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risse1684

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palaver1707

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scrum1905

battleground1931

shoot-out1953

mud-wrestle1986

1660 E. Gower in 5th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1876) 204/1 The only tug is between Episcopacy and Presbytery.

1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft i. 11 Amid the mortal tug of combat.

1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. viii. 269 On this day..William began that career of..good fortune in the mere tug of battle.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 8 Dec. 2/3 The tug of will between the overbearing Kaiser and his hitherto subservient people.

b. tug of war. (a) The decisive contest; the real struggle or tussle; a severe contest for supremacy. (b) An athletic contest between two teams who haul at the opposite ends of a rope, each trying to drag the other over a line marked between them. Also attributive.

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society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > an act or instance of

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strifea1225

wara1300

pulla1400

lakec1420

contenta1450

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agony1555

feudc1565

combat1567

skirmish1576

grapple1604

counter-scuffle1628

scuffle1641

agon1649

tug1660

tug of war1677

risse1684

struggle1692

palaver1707

hash1789

warsle1792

scrabble1794

set-to1794

go1823

bucklea1849

wrestle1850

tussle1857

head-to-head1884

scrum1905

battleground1931

shoot-out1953

mud-wrestle1986

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > specific athletic sports other than running > tug-of-war

Sun and Moon1572

tug of war1876

1677 N. Lee Rival Queens iv. 48 When Greeks joyn'd Greeks, then was the tug of War.

1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VIII li. 136 At last [the mob] takes to weapons..Then comes ‘the tug of war’.

1876 World V. No. 108. 13 The tug of war..was the most popular item in Saturday's entertainment.

1893 E. H. Barker Wanderings by S. Waters 263 He [the devil] therefore lost no time in entering upon a tug-of-war with the saintly interloper.

1902 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 7/1 Their tug-of-war team pulled over two teams of British Tommies.

c. tug of love, a conflict of affections; spec. a contest for custody of a minor; also (with hyphens) attributive.Perhaps influenced by the title of a comedy ‘The Tug of Love’ by I. Zangwill (1907).

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society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > for affections or custody

tug of love1973

1973 Times 9 Nov. 20/7 The Houghton committee was set up after some highly-publicized ‘tug of love’ cases, and recommended making it easier for long-term foster-parents..to adopt.

1977 Daily Mirror 21 Mar. 13/1 Back home in the arms of her mother, a tiny tug-of-love girl sleeps peacefully. The girl..had been taken to California after being snatched by her father.

1984 Times 12 Oct. 2/2 ‘Tug of love’ cases where a child is seized by one parent from another.

4. In harness:

a. (Chiefly plural) A pair of short chains attached to the hames, by which the collar is connected with the shafts.

b. A trace.

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c. A short strap sewn on various parts of the harness and serving to keep it in position; also (plural) the loops of the back-strap which support the shafts.

d. A metal stud or pin on the shaft to prevent it running too far forward through the loops of the back-strap.

e. See quot. 1844. Also locally applied to other parts of harness: see quot. 1888.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > traces > attachments for

norsela1300

pipe?1309

tug1417

tug-hook1417

spreadbat1775

trace-ring1795

trace-tug1795

spreader1810

cock eye1819

stretcher1828

tug-buckle1851

roller1856

piping1875

tug-carrier1877

tug-slide1877

trace-iron1902

trace-loop-

c1250 MS. Barlow 49 (2) lf. 16 In carucis..emendandis... In iugis et tuggis ad idem emptis ix. d.]

1417–18 in Archæol. Jrnl. (1881) 38 78 Item in vij Teugys, xij d.

1481–3 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/496/26) Tuggis et hamis.

1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 96 Tugges for horsharnesse, ij baskettes.

1562 W. Bullein Dial. Sorenes f. 7^v, in Bulwarke of Defence Banishe them from Chyrurgi, commende them to the Carte. To the flaile and the rake, the trace and the togge.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiii. 229 Which word tugge..signifieth the pull or draught of the oxen or horses, and therefore the leathers that beare the chiefe stresse of the draught, the cartars call them tugges.

1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 167 Thou was a noble Fittie-lan', As e'er in tug or tow was drawn!

1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. 155 Tugs, to hold up the Traces.

1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. 155 The Hip Strap..buckles to the Tugs of the Breeching, to hold it up.

1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. 167 In the middle [of each of a pair of hames] other loops are hung, to which the tuggs for the draught are fixed.

1808–18 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Tug, raw-hide, of which formerly plough-traces were made.

1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 695 The pace of the old horse should be subdued..by the rein and tug; which the short reins are called, that pass from the head of one horse to the collar of the other.

1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4708 The collars, hames, and tugs are suited to give the horse the least fatigue in drawing the vehicle.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Tug,..4. The hook or other iron on the carriage, or on the whipple-tree, to which the trace is attached... The end of the leather trace at the part where it is attached to the vehicle. 5. A loose loop buckled round the shaft, to which (when used) is fastened the kicking-strap.

f. Mining. The iron hoop of a corf or hoisting bucket.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > basket > hoop or chains of

tug-hole1797

tug1858

tackler1881

1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tug,..a hoop of iron to hold a tackle.

1877 in E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. III.

1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 188 Tug (Derb.), the iron hook of a hoisting bucket, to which the tacklers are attached.

g. A rope. U.S.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > rope, cord, or line

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jeff1854

1805 M. Lewis Jrnl. 5 May in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) III The white perogue..was..refitted in a few minutes with some tugs of raw hide and nales.

1841 Southern Lit. Messenger 7 531/1 He bound my hands behind me with stout tugs of deer-skin.

1852 H. C. Watson Nights in Block-house 445 They took a strong tug, made from the raw hide of the buffalo or elk.

1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor xiv. 216 He stopped as if to fasten a tug.

5. A timber-wagon. southern and eastern dialect.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle for moving timber or heavy weights

drug?a1549

drug cart?a1549

drug-carriage1665

tug1706

timber carriage1747

timber-tuga1800

janker1823

jinker1860

timber-cart1884

junker1885

lumber-carrier1928

straddle carrier1950

straddle truck1958

telehandler1982

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tug,..a Country-Word for a Waggon to carry Timber.

1724 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. I. ii. 59 I have seen one Tree on a Carriage, which they call here [i.e. at Lewes] a Tug, drawn by Two and Twenty Oxen.

1791 W. Gilpin Remarks Forest Scenery I. 116 A sort of wain, which in that deep country [Sussex], is expressively called a tugg.

1829 H. Smith New Forest I. i. 3 A timber-wain, in Hampshire called a tug.

a. A small, stoutly built, and powerful steamer used to tow other vessels; a tug-boat.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > tug

tow-boat1815

tracker1817

tug1817

tug-boat1832

towing-vessel1834

steam-tug1835

tug-steamer1861

tow1874

pusher tug1936

1817 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 101 This vessel,..appropriately named the Tug, is meant to track ten other vessels... The utility of the Tug is not confined to tracking.

1840 Evid. Hull Docks Comm. 73 You use the tug to tow them from the harbour.

1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 12 The smoke of a tug drawing vessels.

b. Any other towing craft or vehicle, spec. (a) = tug aircraft n. at Compounds 2 below; (b) a tractor used to tow aircraft on the ground or unpowered road vehicles.

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society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > tractor used to tow aircraft on ground

tug1942

society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > aircraft used to tow gliders

tug aircraft1931

tow-plane1940

tug1942

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > towing vehicle

prime mover1938

tug1942

1942 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 46 7 Aircraft towing as a method for launching high-performance gliders is a relatively recent development. Up till now, no specially designed aircraft ‘tug’ has become available.

1945 Amer. Speech 20 227/2 Tug, a four- or six-wheeled tractor used for towing planes on the ground or for towing warehouse trailers.

1960 Times Rev. Industry Nov. 20/3 A..tractor can be a tug for two..vans.

1981 Times 14 Dec. 22/8 Tugs could not move the big jets because of ice.

7. Phrases. †to hold tug, (also hold a tug), to hold one tug, to keep one strenuously occupied, or fully engaged; in tug, †upon a tug, in conflict or contest (with).

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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > be fully occupied > keep fully occupied

to play at small game (also small play) rather than sit out1565

to hold tug1577

to make play1813

society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > contending [phrase]

to set at war1487

at (the) batea1500

in wars?1573

at wars1614

upon a tug1681

1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. Iiv Whiche twoo pretie poyntes [for discussion] helde them tugge with hard holde vntill..aboute dinner tyme.

1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 317 The debate held such tug that it was moved to adjourn.

1667 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 113 There was work enough..that would hold him tugg for a whole yeare.

1672 Westm. Drollery ii. 94 No Tankerd, Flaggon, Bottle, nor Jugg..so well can hold Tugg.

1681 R. L'Estrange tr. Apol. Protestants iv. i. 99 The Popes were at that time upon a Tugg with the Emperor.

1700 P. Motteux Don Quixote II. i. iv. iv. 398 The Barber held tugg with her till the Curate advis'd him to return it.

1791 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) I. 355 Lafayete will hold a good tug, being as cunning as any body.

1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. ix. 218 She had seen from the window Tartar in full tug with two carrier's dogs.

8. [Perhaps a different word.] Public School slang. At Eton College, a student on the foundation, a colleger as distinguished from an oppidan. In wider use: a studious or academic type, a swot.

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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > pupil at specific school > types of pupil at Eton

oppidan1557

servitor1819

sextile1821

dry-bob1844

tug1864

tug-mutton1864

wet bob1865

non-nant1869

society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > diligent pupil or student

muzz1788

sap1798

sapper1825

swot1850

mug1880

mugger1883

mugster1888

groise1913

swotter1919

swotty1929

brain-box1942

mothball1944

geek1957

achiever1960

tug1976

poindexter1981

dexter1985

1864 Eton School Days ii. 21 That building on the right is Tuggery, where the Tug-Muttons live; you'll hate the Tugs like anything: all the Oppidans hate the Tugs.

1881 in C. E. Pascoe Everyday Life in our Public Schools 55 The great match of Collegers—or, as the small Oppidan would term it, ‘Tugs’—and Oppidans is to be played.

1922 S. Leslie Oppidan iv. 48 Tugs or Scholars were separated from Oppidans by the same gulf that lay between Professionals and Gentlemen in the world of sport.

1976 R. Pound A. P. Herbert i. 23 In Wykehamist parlance, he was a ‘tug’, a clever chap, whose achievement was held worthier than any playing-field victory.

1977 A. J. Ayer Part of My Life ii. 34 Traditionally, the Oppidans despised the Collegers, who tended to come from a lower social stratum, and spoke of them as Tugs, because they were believed to engage in tugs of war for the few pieces of mutton which was all that they were given to eat.

1982 A. Barr & P. York Official Sloane Ranger Handbk. 71/1 Swots are weeds (at Eton: ‘tugs don't wash’).

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C1. General attributive. In sense 6. See also tugwithe n.

tug-boat n.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > tug

tow-boat1815

tracker1817

tug1817

tug-boat1832

towing-vessel1834

steam-tug1835

tug-steamer1861

tow1874

pusher tug1936

1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. vi. 34 A kind of tug-boat for all the vessels which have occasion to ascend the rapid.

1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 73 One ship was..waiting to be towed out by the tugboat.

tug-boatman n.

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1891 Daily News 3 Feb. 3/5 The tug-boatmen who struck on Friday at Liverpool were still out yesterday.

tug-captain n.

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1897 Westm. Gaz. 26 May 4/3 A tug captain from Limehouse was called by the police.

tug-man n.

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1891 Sc. Leader 24 Jan. 6 Over 80 per cent. of the tugmen at Liverpool have joined the Sailors' Union.

tug-master n.

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1896 Pall Mall Mag. Nov. 386 The responsibilities and anxieties of a tug-master.

tug-owner n.

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1901 Westm. Gaz. 26 Aug. 5/2 They were tug-owners, and worked the ferry between Hobbs's Point and the Neyland Ordnance Stores.

tug-service n.

tug-steamer n.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > tug

tow-boat1815

tracker1817

tug1817

tug-boat1832

towing-vessel1834

steam-tug1835

tug-steamer1861

tow1874

pusher tug1936

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > propelled by steam engine > other steam vessels

steam dredger1801

steam barge1812

steam hopper1812

steam-launch1812

steam schooner1812

steam-yacht1812

steam-tug1835

pleasure steamer1839

tug-steamer1861

ditcher1877

alligator1884

turnabout1885

tank-steamer1889

whaleback1891

whalebacker1891

1861 Wheat & Tares 252 Tug steamers flashed hither and thither, panting and groaning with their heavy train of stone-laden barges.

tug traffic n.

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1906 Daily Tel. 1 Feb. The Thames and London Rowing Clubs..have never complained of the general, business tug-traffic.

tug-like adj.

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the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > [adjective]

unwearyc893

unwearieda1240

perseverant1340

continuing1393

persevering?a1425

importunate1477

infatigable?1510

unfatigablec1550

persisting1552

unweariable1561

holdfast1567

indefatigable1586

patient1590

faintless1593

untired1597

untired1600

assidual1605

unrelenting1606

persistive1609

unwearyinga1614

hard1615

indefesse1621

constant1639

assiduous1660

dogged1700

unremitting1730

inexhaustible1762

unremitted1774

untiring1823

persistent1830

sleuth1864

tug-like1890

1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 155 Energetic people have certain advantages. Their tuglike, unremitting habit of doing something keeps the machine going.

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tug aircraft n. a powered aircraft used to tow a glider or train of gliders.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > aircraft used to tow gliders

tug aircraft1931

tow-plane1940

tug1942

1931 Flight 26 June 578/2 The tug aircraft, as it will probably be called.

1962 G. Chatterton Wings of Pegasus 32 There was a very limited number of tug aircraft and parachute aircraft.

1976 J. Colville Footprints in Time xxxiii. 185 Soon there were fleets of gliders too. As each was released over the river, its tug-aircraft turned steeply away for home.

tug-boating n. U.S. working on a tug-boat.

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society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [noun] > business or work of a sailor > working on specific type of craft

boatmanage1633

bumboating1773

wherrying1902

tug-boating1941

1941 E. P. O'Donnell Great Big Doorstep xxi. 310 If it wasn't for rain, I wooden have a job to hole down. You'd see me tugboatin on the river or some kinda ordinary work.

1973 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. lx. 1 The coastal fringes are ideally suited to those who make their living from the sea—fishing, whaling.., boat~building, tugboating.

tug-buckle n. a trace-buckle.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > traces > attachments for

norsela1300

pipe?1309

tug1417

tug-hook1417

spreadbat1775

trace-ring1795

trace-tug1795

spreader1810

cock eye1819

stretcher1828

tug-buckle1851

roller1856

piping1875

tug-carrier1877

tug-slide1877

trace-iron1902

trace-loop-

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 359/1 His foreman..says to me, ‘Give that tug-buckle a file’.

1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4686 Set of carriage harness, with improved tug buckles.

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tug-carrier n. each of a pair of loops through which the tugs or traces pass (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1877).

tug-chain n. a chain trace; also a short chain by which a leather trace is attached to the splinter-bar ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895).

tug-hole n. cf. sense 4f.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > basket > hoop or chains of

tug-hole1797

tug1858

tackler1881

1797 J. Curr Coal Viewer 18 Should the corves be made to draw by conductors, the chains..from the center of the tug hole to the center of the ring that connects them, should measure 22½ inches.

tug-hook n. a hook on the hame to which the trace is attached.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > traces > attachments for

norsela1300

pipe?1309

tug1417

tug-hook1417

spreadbat1775

trace-ring1795

trace-tug1795

spreader1810

cock eye1819

stretcher1828

tug-buckle1851

roller1856

piping1875

tug-carrier1877

tug-slide1877

trace-iron1902

trace-loop-

1417–18 in Archæol. Jrnl. (1881) 38 78 Item in Teughookys. vij d.

tug-iron n. see quot.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > shaft(s) or pole > part to which harness is attached

tug-plate1795

tug-iron1844

hold-back1850

1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. Gloss. Tugiron of shafts, an iron on the shafts [of a wagon] to hitch the traces to.

† tug-mutton n. Obsolete = sense 8 above.

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society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > pupil at specific school > types of pupil at Eton

oppidan1557

servitor1819

sextile1821

dry-bob1844

tug1864

tug-mutton1864

wet bob1865

non-nant1869

1864Tug-mutton [see sense 8].

tug pilot n. the pilot of a tug aircraft.

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society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > person in control of aircraft or spacecraft > person in control of aircraft > other aeroplane pilots

test pilot1917

airline pilot1922

bush pilot1936

brown shoe1946

tug pilot1948

1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 197 Tug pilot, the pilot of an aeroplane towing a glider. (Colloquial.)

1978 A. Welch Bk. of Airsports iii. 48/2 When experienced as a tug pilot, you will probably be given the occasional cross-country retrieve from a field or private airstrip.

tug-plate n. see quot.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > shaft(s) or pole > part to which harness is attached

tug-plate1795

tug-iron1844

hold-back1850

1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. (Gloss.) 237 Tug Plate, a plate fixed on the shafts in which the tugs of a one horse harness is placed.

tug-rope n. Obsolete exc. U.S. a trace of rope.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > rope, cord, or line > trace of

tug-rope1417

1417–18 in Archæol. Jrnl. (1881) 38 78 Item in cordis vocatis Teugropis, viij^d.

1852 J. Reynolds Pioneer Hist. Illinois 236 They often pack their meat..by running a tug rope through each piece.

1891 Cent. Mag. Mar. 774/2 We began by eating the rawhide tug ropes and parfleches.

tug-slide n. a tongueless trace-buckle: cf. slide n. 6.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > traces > attachments for

norsela1300

pipe?1309

tug1417

tug-hook1417

spreadbat1775

trace-ring1795

trace-tug1795

spreader1810

cock eye1819

stretcher1828

tug-buckle1851

roller1856

piping1875

tug-carrier1877

tug-slide1877

trace-iron1902

trace-loop-

1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tug-slide.

tug-spring n. a spring connection for traces to reduce the strain of starting a load.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > shaft(s) or pole > part to which harness is attached > spring connection for

tug-spring1877

horse-protector1887

1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tug-spring.

tug-strap n. a leather trace.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > traces

tracec1350

side rope1370

wain-rope1371

trace14..

soam1404

pintrace1440

side-trace1445

wain-string1464

theats1496

treat1611

trek-tow1822

trace-chain1844

tug-strap1882

trek-rope1883

trace-rope1900

1882 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. II. i. at Breast-strap The breast-collar..at its rear ends receives the tug-straps.

tug-whiting n. a whiting caught by a handline (Scottish).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > other edible fish

dogdrave1227

lamprey1297

lingc1300

loach1357

tench1390

carpc1440

rougetc1485

anchovy1582

pompano1598

tai1620

alewife1633

tug-whitingc1650

weakfish1686

ten-pounder1699

fire-flaira1705

tusk1707

porgy1725

katsuo1727

rockfish1731

tautog1750

sea bass1765

Albany beef1779

sable1810

Murray cod1843

paradise fish1858

spot1864

strawberry bass1867

nannygai1871

maomao1873

spotfish1875

strawberry perch1877

milkfish1880

tarwhine1880

tile-fish1881

latchett1882

tile1893

anago1895

flake1906

branzino1915

rascasse1921

lampuki1925

red fish1951

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > merlangus or whiting

merling1289

scalpinc1400

mop1466

whiting1548

tug-whitingc1650

whitey1912

c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 174 About this tyme [sc. 1642], sum tug quhytinges [were] takin.

Derivatives

ˈTuggery n. Eton College slang the collegers' boarding-house; the position or status of a colleger.

ΘΚΠ

society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > school > boarding house

house1821

Tuggery1864

society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > pupil at specific school > types of pupil at Eton > position of

Tuggery1864

1864 Eton School Days ii. 21 That building on the right is Tuggery, where the Tug-Muttons live; you'll hate the Tugs like anything: all the Oppidans hate the Tugs.

1883 J. Brinsley-Richards Seven Years at Eton xii. 112 [A boy] who had come from Aberdeen ‘to try for Tuggery’—that is, to try and pass on to the foundation as a King's scholar.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

tugn.²

Brit.

/tʌɡ/, U.S.

/təɡ/

Etymology: Of unknown origin; perhaps < tug v.

Australian slang (now rare or Obsolete).

A rogue or sharper; also, an uncouth or rowdy fellow, a larrikin.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal

harlot?c1225

knavec1275

truantc1290

shreward1297

boinarda1300

boyc1300

lidderon13..

cokinc1330

pautenerc1330

bribera1387

bricouna1400

losarda1400

rascal?a1400

knapea1450

lotterela1450

limmerc1485

Tutivillus1498

knavatec1506

smy?1507

koken?a1513

swinger1513

Cock Lorel?1518

pedlar's French1530

cust1535

rabiator1535

varletc1540

Jack1548

kern1556

wild rogue1567

miligant1568

rogue1568

tutiviller1568

rascallion1582

schelm1584

scoundrel1589

rampallion1593

Scanderbeg1601

scroyle1602

canter1608

cantler1611

skelm1611

gue1612

Cathayana1616

foiterer1616

tilt1620

picaro1622

picaroon1629

sheepmanc1640

rapscallion1648

marrow1656

Algerine1671

scaramouch1677

fripon1691

shake-bag1794

badling1825

tiger1827

two-for-his-heels1837

ral1846

skeezicks1850

nut1882

gun1890

scattermouch1892

tug1896

natkhat1901

jazzbo1914

scutter1940

bar steward1945

hoor1965

1896 Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Apr. 17/4 Quite a number of bookies are migrating in view of the dull Australian winter tug-catching season.

1911 Bulletin (Sydney) 23 Nov. 13/4 Micko, from Collingwood, may be a ‘tug’ or a ‘crook’ or a ‘rough-up’.

1916 C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke (new ed.) v. 42 A tug named Tyball (cousin to the skirt).

1933 A. Reid Those were Days 55 So that chaps could know why a top-notch tug Can work ‘his’ ramps in a card-room snug.

1945 J. A. Allan Men & Manners in Australia 168 The Australian ‘larrakin’ or ‘tug’ is the counterpart of the English ‘hoodlum’ or ‘tough’.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

tugadj.

Brit.

/tʌɡ/, U.S.

/təɡ/

Etymology: Origin uncertain: compare tug n.¹ 8.

Public School slang.

(Esp. at Winchester College) ordinary, commonplace.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [adjective]

feeblec1275

demeanc1380

unnoblec1384

coarse1424

colourlessc1425

passable1489

meana1500

indifferent1532

plain1539

so-so1542

mediocre1586

ordinary1590

fameless1611

middling1652

middle-rate1658

ornery1692

so-soish1819

nohow1828

betwixt and between1832

indifferential1836

null1847

undazzling1855

deviceless1884

uncompetitive1885

tug1890

run of the mill1919

serviceable1920

dim1958

spammy1959

comme ci, comme ça1968

vanilla1972

meh2007

1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 378/2 Tug (Winchester College), usual, ordinary, common, stale, as tug-clothes, every-day clothes.

1907 Wykehamist Mar. 387/1 Accounts of events, ‘tug’ to the average reader, but recorded in print for the sake of the past and the future.

1951 C. P. Snow Masters vi. 53 No one on earth could call Jago tug... He's the least commonplace of men.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

tugv.

Brit.

/tʌɡ/, U.S.

/təɡ/

Forms: Middle English toggen, Middle English–1500s togge; (1500s tog, toug), Middle English–1600s tugge, Middle English–1700s (1800s dialect) tugg; Middle English– tug.

Etymology: Early Middle English togg-en , intensive from weak grade of *teuhan, tauh, tugum, Old English téo(ha)n, téah, tugon , togen : see tee v.¹

†1. intransitive. To pull sportively, struggle amorously. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > flirt, philander, or dally [verb (intransitive)] > sport or struggle amorously

tuga1225

toyc1530

a1225 St. Marher. 14 Wið plohe speche sputte to mare, swa longe þat ha tollið togederes ant toggið.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 312 Ha ne cusse onan mon..ne toggi wið ne Pleiȝen.

a. To contend, strive in opposition. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > contend [verb (intransitive)]

winc888

fightc900

flitec900

wraxlec1000

wrestlea1200

cockc1225

conteckc1290

strivec1290

struta1300

topc1305

to have, hold, make, take strifec1374

stightlea1375

debatec1386

batea1400

strugglec1412

hurlc1440

ruffle1440

warc1460

warslea1500

pingle?a1513

contend1529

repugn1529

scruggle1530

sturtc1535

tuga1550

broilc1567

threap1572

yoke1581

bustle1585

bandy1594

tilt1595

combat1597

to go (also shake, try, wrestle) a fall1597

mutiny1597

militate1598

combatizec1600

scuffle1601

to run (or ride) a-tilt1608

wage1608

contesta1618

stickle1625

conflict1628

stickle1647

dispute1656

fence1665

contrast1672

scramble1696

to battle it1715

rug1832

grabble1835

buffet1839

tussle1862

pickeer1892

passage1895

tangle1928

14.. Tourn. Tottenham 199 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. III. 91 Thus thai tuggut and thei ruggut til hit was nyȝt.

a1550 Dr. Doubble Ale 148 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. III. 311 The sexton and he truly Did tog by the eares earnestly.

1610 Mucedorus (new ed.) sig. F3 Let us tugge, till one the mastrie winne.

1657 T. Burton Diary (1828) II. 255 I..came away, and left them tugging upon that debate.

1694 J. Dryden Love Triumphant i. i. 1 Fierce Ramirez, the Castilian King, Who tugg'd for Empire, with our Warlike Son.

1701 J. Sage Vind. Cyprianic Age in Wks. (1847) II. 45 I have dared to tug a little with Gilbert Rule.

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iii. 120 Man tugs with man, and clubs with axes play.

1872 J. S. Le Fanu In a Glass Darkly III. 116 All her energies seemed strained to suppress a fit, with which she was then breathlessly tugging.

†b. to tug it out, to decide a matter by contest or debate; to ‘have it out’; also, to go through with a thing to the end. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > continuing > following up, through, or prosecution > follow up, out, or through [verb (intransitive)] > to the end

to tug it outa1641

to go all the way1799

to go the route1926

a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) i. ii. 16 We'll tugge it out by' the teeth.

1648 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 411 My Lord is resolved to go aboard this night and to tugge it out with any wind.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 94 This tough old man, being 70. yeares of age, took a Journey to Rome, there to tugg it out with his Adversaries.

1673 E. Hickeringill Gregory 319 The great courage of Cæsar reviv'd the poor spirited man and made him tug it out.

a. intransitive. To toil, labour, struggle; to go toilsomely, advance laboriously.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > toilsomely

swinkc1175

labourc1438

toil1563

jaunt1575

strivea1586

tug1619

swog1637

hag1728

flog1925

to lame-duck it1943

trog1984

the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > toil

sweatc897

swingc1000

swinkOE

travailc1275

carka1350

tavec1350

to-swinkc1386

labourc1390

byswenke?a1400

tevelc1400

toilc1400

pingle1511

carp1522

moilc1529

turmoil1548

mucker1566

tug1619

tuggle1650

fatigue1695

hammer1755

fag1772

bullock1888

slog1888

to sweat one's guts out1890

schlep1937

slug1943

1619 Visct. Doncaster Let. in S. R. Gardiner Lett. Relations Eng. & Germany (1865) 1st Ser. 46 I came..to Cologne.. put myselfe into the boate..tugged up the river in five days to Francfort.

1635 E. Rainbow Labour 40 All for which you tugge thus diligently, shall perish.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 238 He was..deprived of all the Church lands..notwithstanding he tugged hard to keep some.

1707 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs ii. 101 The little Ants for one poor Grain Labour, and tugg, and strive.

1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career vi. 86 To tug and tug all their lives to get money together.

1911 E. Sidgwick Le Gentleman x He had..tugged up one great boulevard..and down another.

†b. transitive. To acquire by toil or exertion. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by care or effort > by exertion

to dig upc1400

to dig outa1425

tuga1657

rustle1844

to scare up1846

quarry1847

flog1959

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cccxciii, in Poems (1878) IV. 199 The Soldier tumbles what the owner Tugg'd.

c. To carry or convey (something ponderous) with difficulty or exertion; to lug, drag. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by drawing along > draw along or haul [verb (transitive)] > of a person

lugger1654

lurry1664

tug1710

traipse1814

traverse1814

trudge1883

schlep1911

trascine1922

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 231. ⁋2 [He] then says to his Wife, Child, prithee take up the Saddle; which she readily did, and tugged it Home.

a. transitive. To pull at with force; to strain or haul at.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > exert pulling force on or pull at

pullOE

beteec1275

tug13..

tucka1400

ruga1425

pug1575

haul1743

13.. K. Alis. 2305 He hit toggid [Bodl. MS. tukked] out to habbe.

a1375 Lay Folk's Mass Bk. App. iv. 314 Wiþ his teeþ he gon hit togge.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 495/2 Toggyn, or drawyn.., tractulo.

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 69/1 His here in despite torn and togged lyke a cur dogge.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1650 Those two massie Pillars..He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 16 In vain the Milk-maid tugs an empty Teat.

1720 J. Gay Rural Sports i, in Poems I. 11 He greedily sucks in the twining Bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 649 Each oar was tugged by five or six slaves.

†b. To pull about roughly; to touse, to maul.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > treat violently [verb (transitive)] > treat violently or roughly

to lay hands (or hand) on or upon (also in, to)OE

ransacka1400

attamec1430

ruffle1489

tug1493

to shear against the wool1546

rumble1570

finger1572

to pull about1679

misguggle1814

rowdy1825

to jerk around1833

scrag1835

rough1845

hooligan1898

roughhouse1898

savage1899

to rough up1915

to treat 'em rough1918

1493 Festivall (1515) 102 b His neyghbours..all to-bette this man & drewe hym and tugged hym in the worst maner that they coude.

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1657/2 He himselfe was cruelly tugged, and cast into a diche.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vi. xvi. 227 Suffer ye your Knight and Defender, to be thus tugged, misused, and evill entreated by his adversaries?

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xix. 725/2 The slaine body of the vsurping Tyrant, all tugged, and torne.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. i. 113 And I..So wearie with Disasters, tugg'd with Fortune.

c. To get into some condition by tugging. rare.

ΚΠ

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark i. f. 15 Tugged and haled into sondrye pieces.

†d. intransitive for passive. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlviii. 40 It [cloth] tuggis in hoilis, and gais abbreid.

†e. figurative. to tug out, to go through with a struggle to the end; to drag out. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > persevere or persist in [verb (transitive)]

to stand in ——a1382

maintainc1385

willc1400

to stand fortha1425

to stick to ——1525

to tug out1631

worry1727

to stick out1833

to stick at ——1845

slog1846

stay1956

to chase up1958

1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 617 Hauing beene Earle of Oxford full fifty yeares; a long time to tugge out, in the troublesome raignes of so many kings.

5. To move by pulling forcibly; to pull with great exertion or difficulty; to drag, haul. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull

teea900

drawOE

tighta1000

towc1000

tirea1300

pullc1300

tugc1320

halea1393

tilla1400

tolla1400

pluckc1400

retract?a1475

hook1577

tew1600

hike1867

c1320 tr. J. Bonaventura Medit. 441 Some tugge [v.r. tugge him], sum drawe [v.r. drawe him] fro ce to ce.

1406 T. Hoccleve La Male Regle 197 Ther the bootmen took vp-on me keep..With hem was I l-tugged to and fro.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. FFviii With all abiection, haled and tugged from place to place.

1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 308 The debate was thus tugged to and again till one o'clock.

1715 J. Chappelow Right Way to be Rich 142 Often Sin tuggs him down.

1730 A. Pope Corr. 11 Sept. (1956) III. 131 I am tugg'd back to the world and its regards too often.

1843 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Clive in Crit. & Hist. Ess. III. 156 Fifty pieces of ordnance of the largest size, each tugged by a long team of white oxen.

1877 W. R. Cooper Short Hist. Egypt. Obelisks (1878) viii. 35 Three hundred rowers tugged the huge trireme with its ponderous burden across the waters of the Mediterranean.

a. intransitive. To pull with great effort or force; to drag, haul. Often with at.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (intransitive)] > pull > forcibly

tug1303

luga1375

the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)]

drinkc1000

bite?c1225

touchc1384

supc1400

neck?1518

exhaust1555

lug1577

pipe?1578

to suck at1584

slup1598

reswill1614

imbibe1621

tug1698

absorb1821

tipple1824

inhaust1848

down1869

1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 9286 With hys teþe he gan to drawe, And harde for to tugge and gnawe.

a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 58 And evir the tuschettis at him tuggit, The rukis him rent, the ravynis him druggit.

a1627 T. Middleton No Wit (1657) ii. 65 The streams of Fortune 'Gainst which he tugs in vain.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 51 The Men tugged stoutly at their Paddles.

a1721 M. Prior Dialogues of Dead & Other Wks. 381 If you are always tugging at your Purse Strings, you may chance to break them.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xii. 485 Sarpedon..with both hands Tugg'd, and down fell the battlement entire.

1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xvii. 277 Tugging at her pocket to get out the package.

b. In phrase to tug at the (an) oar, to row as a galley slave; hence figurative to toil unremittingly; to labour in a subordinate capacity; to do the drudgery. Cf. oar n. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > working > [verb (intransitive)] > work hard or toil

workeOE

swingc1000

to the boneOE

labourc1390

toilc1400

drevyll?1518

drudge1548

droy1576

droil1591

to tug at the (an) oar1612

to stand to it1632

rudge1676

slave1707

to work like a beaver1741

to hold (also keep, bring, put) one's nose to the grindstone1828

to feague it away1829

to work like a nigger1836

delve1838

slave1852

leather1863

to sweat one's guts out1890

hunker1903

to sweat (also work) one's guts out1932

to eat (also work) like a horse1937

beaver1946

to work like a drover's dog1952

to get one's nose down (to)1962

the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > toil > steadily or dully

plod1562

to tug at the (an) oar1612

plot1621

grub1735

grind1855

plough1891

stodge1912

1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good sig. B Hels drudge, her Gally-slaue. I ha' wore, My flesh toth' bones..at the Oaer Tugging.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 295 We must sit here..and tug at the Oar, while they steer which way they please.

a1764 R. Lloyd Author's Apol. 21 Oh! 'Tis a service irksome more Than tugging at the slavish oar.

1875 A. Maclaren Serm. 2nd Ser. viii. 145 Kept him tugging away all his life at the oar, administering the affairs of a Kingdom.

c. transferred and figurative.

ΚΠ

1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 103 Tugging at a large Rummer of Rhenish and Sugar.

1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 79 How many recollections tugged at his heart as he went on!

1860 R. W. Emerson Considerations in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 241 All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

d. The verb-stem used adverbially.

ΚΠ

1849 G. Cupples Green Hand iv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 310/2 Tug came both Mrs Brady's hands through his hair.

a. transitive. [ < tug n.¹ 6.] To tow by means of a steam-tug.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > propelling other than by sail or oars > propel boat other than by sail or oars [verb (transitive)] > tow > by specific method

cordelle1812

tug1839

push-tow1955

1839 J. M. W. Turner (title of painting) The Fighting Téméraire Tugged to her Last Berth to be Broken Up.

b. To tow (a glider) by means of a powered aircraft.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > air or space travel > gliding and hang-gliding > [verb (transitive)] > tow glider

tug1942

1942 W. S. Churchill Second World War (1951) IV. 800 The Whitley aircraft..is unsuitable for tugging gliders.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

n.¹1417

n.²1896

adj.1890

v.a1225

单词	tug
释义	tugn.¹ Brit. /tʌɡ/, U.S. /təɡ/ Forms: see tug v.; also Middle English teug. Etymology: < tug v. 1. An act or the action of tugging; a forcible or violent pull; a severe strain or drag. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > [noun] > pulling > pulling forcibly > an act of ruga1500 tug?a1513 lug1897 a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 58 The tarsall gaif him tug for tug. 1635 F. Quarles Emblemes iv. iii. 194 The idle vessell slides the watry lay, Without the blast, or tug, of wind, or Oare. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 486 Downward by the Feet he drew The trembling Dastard: at the Tug he falls. 1754 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 307 Lady Harriet had a tooth drawn by Rutter,..and he gave three tugs before he got it out! 1815 ‘J. Mathers’ Hist. Mr. John Decastro & Brother Bat IV. 111 The door stuck to the posts so fast that I was forced to take three or four good tugs at it before it would come open. 1886 G. M. Fenn Master of Cerem. xiv Morton felt a tug at his line. 2. †Labour, toil (obsolete rare); esp. a determined effort to accomplish or attain something; a hard try; a struggle; a ‘go’. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > [noun] > labour or toil workeOE i-swincheOE swenchOE swote971 swingc1000 swinkOE swinkinga1225 travailc1275 cark1330 sweatc1380 the sweat of (one's) brow (brows), facec1380 laboura1382 swengc1400 labouragec1470 toil1495 laborationa1500 tug1504 urea1510 carp1548 turmoil1569 moil1612 praelabour1663 fatigue1669 insudation1669 till?a1800 Kaffir work1848 graft1853 workfulness1854 collar-work1871 yakka1888 swot1899 heavy lifting1934 the world > action or operation > endeavour > [noun] > an attempt > hard or vigorous tug1673 push1746 dasher1884 1504 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 191 It ryseth on my owne mynd to give over grett tuggs of husbandry which I had, and take me to lesse charge. 1673 Ld. Conway in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 141 I shall yet have a tug for the M^r of the Ordnance place. 1764 ‘G. Psalmanazar’ Memoirs 84 I..found it a very hard tug to keep up my credit. 1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 113 The vain low strife That makes men mad—the tug for wealth and power. 3. a. A strenuous contest between two forces or persons. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > an act or instance of flitec1000 strifea1225 wara1300 pulla1400 lakec1420 contenta1450 stour?c1450 contentiona1500 pingle1543 agony1555 feudc1565 combat1567 skirmish1576 grapple1604 counter-scuffle1628 scuffle1641 agon1649 tug1660 tug of war1677 risse1684 struggle1692 palaver1707 hash1789 warsle1792 scrabble1794 set-to1794 go1823 bucklea1849 wrestle1850 tussle1857 head-to-head1884 scrum1905 battleground1931 shoot-out1953 mud-wrestle1986 1660 E. Gower in 5th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1876) 204/1 The only tug is between Episcopacy and Presbytery. 1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft i. 11 Amid the mortal tug of combat. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. viii. 269 On this day..William began that career of..good fortune in the mere tug of battle. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 8 Dec. 2/3 The tug of will between the overbearing Kaiser and his hitherto subservient people. b. tug of war. (a) The decisive contest; the real struggle or tussle; a severe contest for supremacy. (b) An athletic contest between two teams who haul at the opposite ends of a rope, each trying to drag the other over a line marked between them. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > an act or instance of flitec1000 strifea1225 wara1300 pulla1400 lakec1420 contenta1450 stour?c1450 contentiona1500 pingle1543 agony1555 feudc1565 combat1567 skirmish1576 grapple1604 counter-scuffle1628 scuffle1641 agon1649 tug1660 tug of war1677 risse1684 struggle1692 palaver1707 hash1789 warsle1792 scrabble1794 set-to1794 go1823 bucklea1849 wrestle1850 tussle1857 head-to-head1884 scrum1905 battleground1931 shoot-out1953 mud-wrestle1986 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > specific athletic sports other than running > tug-of-war Sun and Moon1572 tug of war1876 1677 N. Lee Rival Queens iv. 48 When Greeks joyn'd Greeks, then was the tug of War. 1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VIII li. 136 At last [the mob] takes to weapons..Then comes ‘the tug of war’. 1876 World V. No. 108. 13 The tug of war..was the most popular item in Saturday's entertainment. 1893 E. H. Barker Wanderings by S. Waters 263 He [the devil] therefore lost no time in entering upon a tug-of-war with the saintly interloper. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 7/1 Their tug-of-war team pulled over two teams of British Tommies. c. tug of love, a conflict of affections; spec. a contest for custody of a minor; also (with hyphens) attributive.Perhaps influenced by the title of a comedy ‘The Tug of Love’ by I. Zangwill (1907). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > [noun] > for affections or custody tug of love1973 1973 Times 9 Nov. 20/7 The Houghton committee was set up after some highly-publicized ‘tug of love’ cases, and recommended making it easier for long-term foster-parents..to adopt. 1977 Daily Mirror 21 Mar. 13/1 Back home in the arms of her mother, a tiny tug-of-love girl sleeps peacefully. The girl..had been taken to California after being snatched by her father. 1984 Times 12 Oct. 2/2 ‘Tug of love’ cases where a child is seized by one parent from another. 4. In harness: a. (Chiefly plural) A pair of short chains attached to the hames, by which the collar is connected with the shafts. b. A trace. Categories » c. A short strap sewn on various parts of the harness and serving to keep it in position; also (plural) the loops of the back-strap which support the shafts. d. A metal stud or pin on the shaft to prevent it running too far forward through the loops of the back-strap. e. See quot. 1844. Also locally applied to other parts of harness: see quot. 1888. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > traces > attachments for norsela1300 pipe?1309 tug1417 tug-hook1417 spreadbat1775 trace-ring1795 trace-tug1795 spreader1810 cock eye1819 stretcher1828 tug-buckle1851 roller1856 piping1875 tug-carrier1877 tug-slide1877 trace-iron1902 trace-loop- c1250 MS. Barlow 49 (2) lf. 16 In carucis..emendandis... In iugis et tuggis ad idem emptis ix. d.] 1417–18 in Archæol. Jrnl. (1881) 38 78 Item in vij Teugys, xij d. 1481–3 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/496/26) Tuggis et hamis. 1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 96 Tugges for horsharnesse, ij baskettes. 1562 W. Bullein Dial. Sorenes f. 7^v, in Bulwarke of Defence Banishe them from Chyrurgi, commende them to the Carte. To the flaile and the rake, the trace and the togge. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiii. 229 Which word tugge..signifieth the pull or draught of the oxen or horses, and therefore the leathers that beare the chiefe stresse of the draught, the cartars call them tugges. 1786 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 167 Thou was a noble Fittie-lan', As e'er in tug or tow was drawn! 1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. 155 Tugs, to hold up the Traces. 1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. 155 The Hip Strap..buckles to the Tugs of the Breeching, to hold it up. 1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. 167 In the middle [of each of a pair of hames] other loops are hung, to which the tuggs for the draught are fixed. 1808–18 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Tug, raw-hide, of which formerly plough-traces were made. 1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm II. 695 The pace of the old horse should be subdued..by the rein and tug; which the short reins are called, that pass from the head of one horse to the collar of the other. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4708 The collars, hames, and tugs are suited to give the horse the least fatigue in drawing the vehicle. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Tug,..4. The hook or other iron on the carriage, or on the whipple-tree, to which the trace is attached... The end of the leather trace at the part where it is attached to the vehicle. 5. A loose loop buckled round the shaft, to which (when used) is fastened the kicking-strap. f. Mining. The iron hoop of a corf or hoisting bucket. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > basket > hoop or chains of tug-hole1797 tug1858 tackler1881 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tug,..a hoop of iron to hold a tackle. 1877 in E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. III. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 188 Tug (Derb.), the iron hook of a hoisting bucket, to which the tacklers are attached. g. A rope. U.S. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > rope, cord, or line stringa900 soleOE funela1400 tow1513 rope1720 tug1805 thews1851 jeff1854 1805 M. Lewis Jrnl. 5 May in Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1987) III The white perogue..was..refitted in a few minutes with some tugs of raw hide and nales. 1841 Southern Lit. Messenger 7 531/1 He bound my hands behind me with stout tugs of deer-skin. 1852 H. C. Watson Nights in Block-house 445 They took a strong tug, made from the raw hide of the buffalo or elk. 1910 W. M. Raine Bucky O'Connor xiv. 216 He stopped as if to fasten a tug. 5. A timber-wagon. southern and eastern dialect. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle for moving timber or heavy weights drug?a1549 drug cart?a1549 drug-carriage1665 tug1706 timber carriage1747 timber-tuga1800 janker1823 jinker1860 timber-cart1884 junker1885 lumber-carrier1928 straddle carrier1950 straddle truck1958 telehandler1982 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Tug,..a Country-Word for a Waggon to carry Timber. 1724 D. Defoe Tour Great Brit. I. ii. 59 I have seen one Tree on a Carriage, which they call here [i.e. at Lewes] a Tug, drawn by Two and Twenty Oxen. 1791 W. Gilpin Remarks Forest Scenery I. 116 A sort of wain, which in that deep country [Sussex], is expressively called a tugg. 1829 H. Smith New Forest I. i. 3 A timber-wain, in Hampshire called a tug. 6. a. A small, stoutly built, and powerful steamer used to tow other vessels; a tug-boat. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > tug tow-boat1815 tracker1817 tug1817 tug-boat1832 towing-vessel1834 steam-tug1835 tug-steamer1861 tow1874 pusher tug1936 1817 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 101 This vessel,..appropriately named the Tug, is meant to track ten other vessels... The utility of the Tug is not confined to tracking. 1840 Evid. Hull Docks Comm. 73 You use the tug to tow them from the harbour. 1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 12 The smoke of a tug drawing vessels. b. Any other towing craft or vehicle, spec. (a) = tug aircraft n. at Compounds 2 below; (b) a tractor used to tow aircraft on the ground or unpowered road vehicles. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > airfield or airport > [noun] > tractor used to tow aircraft on ground tug1942 society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > aircraft used to tow gliders tug aircraft1931 tow-plane1940 tug1942 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > towing vehicle prime mover1938 tug1942 1942 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 46 7 Aircraft towing as a method for launching high-performance gliders is a relatively recent development. Up till now, no specially designed aircraft ‘tug’ has become available. 1945 Amer. Speech 20 227/2 Tug, a four- or six-wheeled tractor used for towing planes on the ground or for towing warehouse trailers. 1960 Times Rev. Industry Nov. 20/3 A..tractor can be a tug for two..vans. 1981 Times 14 Dec. 22/8 Tugs could not move the big jets because of ice. 7. Phrases. †to hold tug, (also hold a tug), to hold one tug, to keep one strenuously occupied, or fully engaged; in tug, †upon a tug, in conflict or contest (with). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > be fully occupied > keep fully occupied to play at small game (also small play) rather than sit out1565 to hold tug1577 to make play1813 society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > contending [phrase] to set at war1487 at (the) batea1500 in wars?1573 at wars1614 upon a tug1681 1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. Iiv Whiche twoo pretie poyntes [for discussion] helde them tugge with hard holde vntill..aboute dinner tyme. 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 317 The debate held such tug that it was moved to adjourn. 1667 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 113 There was work enough..that would hold him tugg for a whole yeare. 1672 Westm. Drollery ii. 94 No Tankerd, Flaggon, Bottle, nor Jugg..so well can hold Tugg. 1681 R. L'Estrange tr. Apol. Protestants iv. i. 99 The Popes were at that time upon a Tugg with the Emperor. 1700 P. Motteux Don Quixote II. i. iv. iv. 398 The Barber held tugg with her till the Curate advis'd him to return it. 1791 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) I. 355 Lafayete will hold a good tug, being as cunning as any body. 1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. ix. 218 She had seen from the window Tartar in full tug with two carrier's dogs. 8. [Perhaps a different word.] Public School slang. At Eton College, a student on the foundation, a colleger as distinguished from an oppidan. In wider use: a studious or academic type, a swot. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > pupil at specific school > types of pupil at Eton oppidan1557 servitor1819 sextile1821 dry-bob1844 tug1864 tug-mutton1864 wet bob1865 non-nant1869 society > education > learning > learner > [noun] > diligent pupil or student muzz1788 sap1798 sapper1825 swot1850 mug1880 mugger1883 mugster1888 groise1913 swotter1919 swotty1929 brain-box1942 mothball1944 geek1957 achiever1960 tug1976 poindexter1981 dexter1985 1864 Eton School Days ii. 21 That building on the right is Tuggery, where the Tug-Muttons live; you'll hate the Tugs like anything: all the Oppidans hate the Tugs. 1881 in C. E. Pascoe Everyday Life in our Public Schools 55 The great match of Collegers—or, as the small Oppidan would term it, ‘Tugs’—and Oppidans is to be played. 1922 S. Leslie Oppidan iv. 48 Tugs or Scholars were separated from Oppidans by the same gulf that lay between Professionals and Gentlemen in the world of sport. 1976 R. Pound A. P. Herbert i. 23 In Wykehamist parlance, he was a ‘tug’, a clever chap, whose achievement was held worthier than any playing-field victory. 1977 A. J. Ayer Part of My Life ii. 34 Traditionally, the Oppidans despised the Collegers, who tended to come from a lower social stratum, and spoke of them as Tugs, because they were believed to engage in tugs of war for the few pieces of mutton which was all that they were given to eat. 1982 A. Barr & P. York Official Sloane Ranger Handbk. 71/1 Swots are weeds (at Eton: ‘tugs don't wash’). Compounds C1. General attributive. In sense 6. See also tugwithe n. a. tug-boat n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > tug tow-boat1815 tracker1817 tug1817 tug-boat1832 towing-vessel1834 steam-tug1835 tug-steamer1861 tow1874 pusher tug1936 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. vi. 34 A kind of tug-boat for all the vessels which have occasion to ascend the rapid. 1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 73 One ship was..waiting to be towed out by the tugboat. tug-boatman n. ΚΠ 1891 Daily News 3 Feb. 3/5 The tug-boatmen who struck on Friday at Liverpool were still out yesterday. tug-captain n. ΚΠ 1897 Westm. Gaz. 26 May 4/3 A tug captain from Limehouse was called by the police. tug-man n. ΚΠ 1891 Sc. Leader 24 Jan. 6 Over 80 per cent. of the tugmen at Liverpool have joined the Sailors' Union. tug-master n. ΚΠ 1896 Pall Mall Mag. Nov. 386 The responsibilities and anxieties of a tug-master. tug-owner n. ΚΠ 1901 Westm. Gaz. 26 Aug. 5/2 They were tug-owners, and worked the ferry between Hobbs's Point and the Neyland Ordnance Stores. tug-service n. tug-steamer n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > tug tow-boat1815 tracker1817 tug1817 tug-boat1832 towing-vessel1834 steam-tug1835 tug-steamer1861 tow1874 pusher tug1936 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > mechanically propelled vessels > [noun] > propelled by steam engine > other steam vessels steam dredger1801 steam barge1812 steam hopper1812 steam-launch1812 steam schooner1812 steam-yacht1812 steam-tug1835 pleasure steamer1839 tug-steamer1861 ditcher1877 alligator1884 turnabout1885 tank-steamer1889 whaleback1891 whalebacker1891 1861 Wheat & Tares 252 Tug steamers flashed hither and thither, panting and groaning with their heavy train of stone-laden barges. tug traffic n. ΚΠ 1906 Daily Tel. 1 Feb. The Thames and London Rowing Clubs..have never complained of the general, business tug-traffic. b. tug-like adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > [adjective] unwearyc893 unwearieda1240 perseverant1340 continuing1393 persevering?a1425 importunate1477 infatigable?1510 unfatigablec1550 persisting1552 unweariable1561 holdfast1567 indefatigable1586 patient1590 faintless1593 untired1597 untired1600 assidual1605 unrelenting1606 persistive1609 unwearyinga1614 hard1615 indefesse1621 constant1639 assiduous1660 dogged1700 unremitting1730 inexhaustible1762 unremitted1774 untiring1823 persistent1830 sleuth1864 tug-like1890 1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 155 Energetic people have certain advantages. Their tuglike, unremitting habit of doing something keeps the machine going. C2. tug aircraft n. a powered aircraft used to tow a glider or train of gliders. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > aircraft used to tow gliders tug aircraft1931 tow-plane1940 tug1942 1931 Flight 26 June 578/2 The tug aircraft, as it will probably be called. 1962 G. Chatterton Wings of Pegasus 32 There was a very limited number of tug aircraft and parachute aircraft. 1976 J. Colville Footprints in Time xxxiii. 185 Soon there were fleets of gliders too. As each was released over the river, its tug-aircraft turned steeply away for home. tug-boating n. U.S. working on a tug-boat. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > seafaring life > [noun] > business or work of a sailor > working on specific type of craft boatmanage1633 bumboating1773 wherrying1902 tug-boating1941 1941 E. P. O'Donnell Great Big Doorstep xxi. 310 If it wasn't for rain, I wooden have a job to hole down. You'd see me tugboatin on the river or some kinda ordinary work. 1973 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. lx. 1 The coastal fringes are ideally suited to those who make their living from the sea—fishing, whaling.., boat~building, tugboating. tug-buckle n. a trace-buckle. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > traces > attachments for norsela1300 pipe?1309 tug1417 tug-hook1417 spreadbat1775 trace-ring1795 trace-tug1795 spreader1810 cock eye1819 stretcher1828 tug-buckle1851 roller1856 piping1875 tug-carrier1877 tug-slide1877 trace-iron1902 trace-loop- 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 359/1 His foreman..says to me, ‘Give that tug-buckle a file’. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 4686 Set of carriage harness, with improved tug buckles. Thesaurus » Categories » tug-carrier n. each of a pair of loops through which the tugs or traces pass (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1877). tug-chain n. a chain trace; also a short chain by which a leather trace is attached to the splinter-bar ( Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895). tug-hole n. cf. sense 4f. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > basket > hoop or chains of tug-hole1797 tug1858 tackler1881 1797 J. Curr Coal Viewer 18 Should the corves be made to draw by conductors, the chains..from the center of the tug hole to the center of the ring that connects them, should measure 22½ inches. tug-hook n. a hook on the hame to which the trace is attached. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > traces > attachments for norsela1300 pipe?1309 tug1417 tug-hook1417 spreadbat1775 trace-ring1795 trace-tug1795 spreader1810 cock eye1819 stretcher1828 tug-buckle1851 roller1856 piping1875 tug-carrier1877 tug-slide1877 trace-iron1902 trace-loop- 1417–18 in Archæol. Jrnl. (1881) 38 78 Item in Teughookys. vij d. tug-iron n. see quot. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > shaft(s) or pole > part to which harness is attached tug-plate1795 tug-iron1844 hold-back1850 1844 W. Barnes Poems Rural Life in Dorset Dial. Gloss. Tugiron of shafts, an iron on the shafts [of a wagon] to hitch the traces to. † tug-mutton n. Obsolete = sense 8 above. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > pupil at specific school > types of pupil at Eton oppidan1557 servitor1819 sextile1821 dry-bob1844 tug1864 tug-mutton1864 wet bob1865 non-nant1869 1864Tug-mutton [see sense 8]. tug pilot n. the pilot of a tug aircraft. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > people who fly in aircraft or spacecraft > [noun] > person in control of aircraft or spacecraft > person in control of aircraft > other aeroplane pilots test pilot1917 airline pilot1922 bush pilot1936 brown shoe1946 tug pilot1948 1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 197 Tug pilot, the pilot of an aeroplane towing a glider. (Colloquial.) 1978 A. Welch Bk. of Airsports iii. 48/2 When experienced as a tug pilot, you will probably be given the occasional cross-country retrieve from a field or private airstrip. tug-plate n. see quot. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > shaft(s) or pole > part to which harness is attached tug-plate1795 tug-iron1844 hold-back1850 1795 W. Felton Treat. Carriages II. (Gloss.) 237 Tug Plate, a plate fixed on the shafts in which the tugs of a one horse harness is placed. tug-rope n. Obsolete exc. U.S. a trace of rope. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > rope, cord, or line > trace of tug-rope1417 1417–18 in Archæol. Jrnl. (1881) 38 78 Item in cordis vocatis Teugropis, viij^d. 1852 J. Reynolds Pioneer Hist. Illinois 236 They often pack their meat..by running a tug rope through each piece. 1891 Cent. Mag. Mar. 774/2 We began by eating the rawhide tug ropes and parfleches. tug-slide n. a tongueless trace-buckle: cf. slide n. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > traces > attachments for norsela1300 pipe?1309 tug1417 tug-hook1417 spreadbat1775 trace-ring1795 trace-tug1795 spreader1810 cock eye1819 stretcher1828 tug-buckle1851 roller1856 piping1875 tug-carrier1877 tug-slide1877 trace-iron1902 trace-loop- 1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tug-slide. tug-spring n. a spring connection for traces to reduce the strain of starting a load. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > parts of cart or carriage > [noun] > shaft(s) or pole > part to which harness is attached > spring connection for tug-spring1877 horse-protector1887 1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Tug-spring. tug-strap n. a leather trace. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > harness of draught animal > traces tracec1350 side rope1370 wain-rope1371 trace14.. soam1404 pintrace1440 side-trace1445 wain-string1464 theats1496 treat1611 trek-tow1822 trace-chain1844 tug-strap1882 trek-rope1883 trace-rope1900 1882 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. II. i. at Breast-strap The breast-collar..at its rear ends receives the tug-straps. tug-whiting n. a whiting caught by a handline (Scottish). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > other edible fish dogdrave1227 lamprey1297 lingc1300 loach1357 tench1390 carpc1440 rougetc1485 anchovy1582 pompano1598 tai1620 alewife1633 tug-whitingc1650 weakfish1686 ten-pounder1699 fire-flaira1705 tusk1707 porgy1725 katsuo1727 rockfish1731 tautog1750 sea bass1765 Albany beef1779 sable1810 Murray cod1843 paradise fish1858 spot1864 strawberry bass1867 nannygai1871 maomao1873 spotfish1875 strawberry perch1877 milkfish1880 tarwhine1880 tile-fish1881 latchett1882 tile1893 anago1895 flake1906 branzino1915 rascasse1921 lampuki1925 red fish1951 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > merlangus or whiting merling1289 scalpinc1400 mop1466 whiting1548 tug-whitingc1650 whitey1912 c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 174 About this tyme [sc. 1642], sum tug quhytinges [were] takin. Derivatives ˈTuggery n. Eton College slang the collegers' boarding-house; the position or status of a colleger. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > school > boarding house house1821 Tuggery1864 society > education > learning > learner > one attending school > [noun] > pupil at specific school > types of pupil at Eton > position of Tuggery1864 1864 Eton School Days ii. 21 That building on the right is Tuggery, where the Tug-Muttons live; you'll hate the Tugs like anything: all the Oppidans hate the Tugs. 1883 J. Brinsley-Richards Seven Years at Eton xii. 112 [A boy] who had come from Aberdeen ‘to try for Tuggery’—that is, to try and pass on to the foundation as a King's scholar. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022). tugn.² Brit. /tʌɡ/, U.S. /təɡ/ Etymology: Of unknown origin; perhaps < tug v. Australian slang (now rare or Obsolete). A rogue or sharper; also, an uncouth or rowdy fellow, a larrikin. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal harlot?c1225 knavec1275 truantc1290 shreward1297 boinarda1300 boyc1300 lidderon13.. cokinc1330 pautenerc1330 bribera1387 bricouna1400 losarda1400 rascal?a1400 knapea1450 lotterela1450 limmerc1485 Tutivillus1498 knavatec1506 smy?1507 koken?a1513 swinger1513 Cock Lorel?1518 pedlar's French1530 cust1535 rabiator1535 varletc1540 Jack1548 kern1556 wild rogue1567 miligant1568 rogue1568 tutiviller1568 rascallion1582 schelm1584 scoundrel1589 rampallion1593 Scanderbeg1601 scroyle1602 canter1608 cantler1611 skelm1611 gue1612 Cathayana1616 foiterer1616 tilt1620 picaro1622 picaroon1629 sheepmanc1640 rapscallion1648 marrow1656 Algerine1671 scaramouch1677 fripon1691 shake-bag1794 badling1825 tiger1827 two-for-his-heels1837 ral1846 skeezicks1850 nut1882 gun1890 scattermouch1892 tug1896 natkhat1901 jazzbo1914 scutter1940 bar steward1945 hoor1965 1896 Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Apr. 17/4 Quite a number of bookies are migrating in view of the dull Australian winter tug-catching season. 1911 Bulletin (Sydney) 23 Nov. 13/4 Micko, from Collingwood, may be a ‘tug’ or a ‘crook’ or a ‘rough-up’. 1916 C. J. Dennis Songs Sentimental Bloke (new ed.) v. 42 A tug named Tyball (cousin to the skirt). 1933 A. Reid Those were Days 55 So that chaps could know why a top-notch tug Can work ‘his’ ramps in a card-room snug. 1945 J. A. Allan Men & Manners in Australia 168 The Australian ‘larrakin’ or ‘tug’ is the counterpart of the English ‘hoodlum’ or ‘tough’. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tugadj. Brit. /tʌɡ/, U.S. /təɡ/ Etymology: Origin uncertain: compare tug n.¹ 8. Public School slang. (Esp. at Winchester College) ordinary, commonplace. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > mediocrity > [adjective] feeblec1275 demeanc1380 unnoblec1384 coarse1424 colourlessc1425 passable1489 meana1500 indifferent1532 plain1539 so-so1542 mediocre1586 ordinary1590 fameless1611 middling1652 middle-rate1658 ornery1692 so-soish1819 nohow1828 betwixt and between1832 indifferential1836 null1847 undazzling1855 deviceless1884 uncompetitive1885 tug1890 run of the mill1919 serviceable1920 dim1958 spammy1959 comme ci, comme ça1968 vanilla1972 meh2007 1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang II. 378/2 Tug (Winchester College), usual, ordinary, common, stale, as tug-clothes, every-day clothes. 1907 Wykehamist Mar. 387/1 Accounts of events, ‘tug’ to the average reader, but recorded in print for the sake of the past and the future. 1951 C. P. Snow Masters vi. 53 No one on earth could call Jago tug... He's the least commonplace of men. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). tugv. Brit. /tʌɡ/, U.S. /təɡ/ Forms: Middle English toggen, Middle English–1500s togge; (1500s tog, toug), Middle English–1600s tugge, Middle English–1700s (1800s dialect) tugg; Middle English– tug. Etymology: Early Middle English togg-en , intensive from weak grade of teuhan, tauh, tugum, Old English téo(ha)n, téah, tugon* , togen : see tee v.¹ †1. intransitive. To pull sportively, struggle amorously. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > flirt, philander, or dally [verb (intransitive)] > sport or struggle amorously tuga1225 toyc1530 a1225 St. Marher. 14 Wið plohe speche sputte to mare, swa longe þat ha tollið togederes ant toggið. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 312 Ha ne cusse onan mon..ne toggi wið ne Pleiȝen. 2. a. To contend, strive in opposition. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > contend [verb (intransitive)] winc888 fightc900 flitec900 wraxlec1000 wrestlea1200 cockc1225 conteckc1290 strivec1290 struta1300 topc1305 to have, hold, make, take strifec1374 stightlea1375 debatec1386 batea1400 strugglec1412 hurlc1440 ruffle1440 warc1460 warslea1500 pingle?a1513 contend1529 repugn1529 scruggle1530 sturtc1535 tuga1550 broilc1567 threap1572 yoke1581 bustle1585 bandy1594 tilt1595 combat1597 to go (also shake, try, wrestle) a fall1597 mutiny1597 militate1598 combatizec1600 scuffle1601 to run (or ride) a-tilt1608 wage1608 contesta1618 stickle1625 conflict1628 stickle1647 dispute1656 fence1665 contrast1672 scramble1696 to battle it1715 rug1832 grabble1835 buffet1839 tussle1862 pickeer1892 passage1895 tangle1928 14.. Tourn. Tottenham 199 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. III. 91 Thus thai tuggut and thei ruggut til hit was nyȝt. a1550 Dr. Doubble Ale 148 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. III. 311 The sexton and he truly Did tog by the eares earnestly. 1610 Mucedorus (new ed.) sig. F3 Let us tugge, till one the mastrie winne. 1657 T. Burton Diary (1828) II. 255 I..came away, and left them tugging upon that debate. 1694 J. Dryden Love Triumphant i. i. 1 Fierce Ramirez, the Castilian King, Who tugg'd for Empire, with our Warlike Son. 1701 J. Sage Vind. Cyprianic Age in Wks. (1847) II. 45 I have dared to tug a little with Gilbert Rule. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iii. 120 Man tugs with man, and clubs with axes play. 1872 J. S. Le Fanu In a Glass Darkly III. 116 All her energies seemed strained to suppress a fit, with which she was then breathlessly tugging. †b. to tug it out, to decide a matter by contest or debate; to ‘have it out’; also, to go through with a thing to the end. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > continuing > following up, through, or prosecution > follow up, out, or through [verb (intransitive)] > to the end to tug it outa1641 to go all the way1799 to go the route1926 a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) i. ii. 16 We'll tugge it out by' the teeth. 1648 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 411 My Lord is resolved to go aboard this night and to tugge it out with any wind. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ii. 94 This tough old man, being 70. yeares of age, took a Journey to Rome, there to tugg it out with his Adversaries. 1673 E. Hickeringill Gregory 319 The great courage of Cæsar reviv'd the poor spirited man and made him tug it out. 3. a. intransitive. To toil, labour, struggle; to go toilsomely, advance laboriously. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > toilsomely swinkc1175 labourc1438 toil1563 jaunt1575 strivea1586 tug1619 swog1637 hag1728 flog1925 to lame-duck it1943 trog1984 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > toil sweatc897 swingc1000 swinkOE travailc1275 carka1350 tavec1350 to-swinkc1386 labourc1390 byswenke?a1400 tevelc1400 toilc1400 pingle1511 carp1522 moilc1529 turmoil1548 mucker1566 tug1619 tuggle1650 fatigue1695 hammer1755 fag1772 bullock1888 slog1888 to sweat one's guts out1890 schlep1937 slug1943 1619 Visct. Doncaster Let. in S. R. Gardiner Lett. Relations Eng. & Germany (1865) 1st Ser. 46 I came..to Cologne.. put myselfe into the boate..tugged up the river in five days to Francfort. 1635 E. Rainbow Labour 40 All for which you tugge thus diligently, shall perish. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 238 He was..deprived of all the Church lands..notwithstanding he tugged hard to keep some. 1707 I. Watts Hymns & Spiritual Songs ii. 101 The little Ants for one poor Grain Labour, and tugg, and strive. 1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career vi. 86 To tug and tug all their lives to get money together. 1911 E. Sidgwick Le Gentleman x He had..tugged up one great boulevard..and down another. †b. transitive. To acquire by toil or exertion. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by care or effort > by exertion to dig upc1400 to dig outa1425 tuga1657 rustle1844 to scare up1846 quarry1847 flog1959 a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V cccxciii, in Poems (1878) IV. 199 The Soldier tumbles what the owner Tugg'd. c. To carry or convey (something ponderous) with difficulty or exertion; to lug, drag. colloquial. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by drawing along > draw along or haul [verb (transitive)] > of a person lugger1654 lurry1664 tug1710 traipse1814 traverse1814 trudge1883 schlep1911 trascine1922 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 231. ⁋2 [He] then says to his Wife, Child, prithee take up the Saddle; which she readily did, and tugged it Home. 4. a. transitive. To pull at with force; to strain or haul at. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull > exert pulling force on or pull at pullOE beteec1275 tug13.. tucka1400 ruga1425 pug1575 haul1743 13.. K. Alis. 2305 He hit toggid [Bodl. MS. tukked] out to habbe. a1375 Lay Folk's Mass Bk. App. iv. 314 Wiþ his teeþ he gon hit togge. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 495/2 Toggyn, or drawyn.., tractulo. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 69/1 His here in despite torn and togged lyke a cur dogge. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1650 Those two massie Pillars..He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 16 In vain the Milk-maid tugs an empty Teat. 1720 J. Gay Rural Sports i, in Poems I. 11 He greedily sucks in the twining Bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xvi. 649 Each oar was tugged by five or six slaves. †b. To pull about roughly; to touse, to maul. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > treat violently [verb (transitive)] > treat violently or roughly to lay hands (or hand) on or upon (also in, to)OE ransacka1400 attamec1430 ruffle1489 tug1493 to shear against the wool1546 rumble1570 finger1572 to pull about1679 misguggle1814 rowdy1825 to jerk around1833 scrag1835 rough1845 hooligan1898 roughhouse1898 savage1899 to rough up1915 to treat 'em rough1918 1493 Festivall (1515) 102 b His neyghbours..all to-bette this man & drewe hym and tugged hym in the worst maner that they coude. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1657/2 He himselfe was cruelly tugged, and cast into a diche. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vi. xvi. 227 Suffer ye your Knight and Defender, to be thus tugged, misused, and evill entreated by his adversaries? 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xix. 725/2 The slaine body of the vsurping Tyrant, all tugged, and torne. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. i. 113 And I..So wearie with Disasters, tugg'd with Fortune. View more context for this quotation c. To get into some condition by tugging. rare. ΚΠ 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark i. f. 15 Tugged and haled into sondrye pieces. †d. intransitive for passive. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlviii. 40 It [cloth] tuggis in hoilis, and gais abbreid. †e. figurative. to tug out, to go through with a struggle to the end; to drag out. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > persevere or persist in [verb (transitive)] to stand in ——a1382 maintainc1385 willc1400 to stand fortha1425 to stick to ——1525 to tug out1631 worry1727 to stick out1833 to stick at ——1845 slog1846 stay1956 to chase up1958 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 617 Hauing beene Earle of Oxford full fifty yeares; a long time to tugge out, in the troublesome raignes of so many kings. 5. To move by pulling forcibly; to pull with great exertion or difficulty; to drag, haul. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull teea900 drawOE tighta1000 towc1000 tirea1300 pullc1300 tugc1320 halea1393 tilla1400 tolla1400 pluckc1400 retract?a1475 hook1577 tew1600 hike1867 c1320 tr. J. Bonaventura Medit. 441 Some tugge [v.r. tugge him], sum drawe [v.r. drawe him] fro ce to ce. 1406 T. Hoccleve La Male Regle 197 Ther the bootmen took vp-on me keep..With hem was I l-tugged to and fro. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. FFviii With all abiection, haled and tugged from place to place. 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 308 The debate was thus tugged to and again till one o'clock. 1715 J. Chappelow Right Way to be Rich 142 Often Sin tuggs him down. 1730 A. Pope Corr. 11 Sept. (1956) III. 131 I am tugg'd back to the world and its regards too often. 1843 T. B. Macaulay Ld. Clive in Crit. & Hist. Ess. III. 156 Fifty pieces of ordnance of the largest size, each tugged by a long team of white oxen. 1877 W. R. Cooper Short Hist. Egypt. Obelisks (1878) viii. 35 Three hundred rowers tugged the huge trireme with its ponderous burden across the waters of the Mediterranean. 6. a. intransitive. To pull with great effort or force; to drag, haul. Often with at. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (intransitive)] > pull > forcibly tug1303 luga1375 the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [verb (transitive)] drinkc1000 bite?c1225 touchc1384 supc1400 neck?1518 exhaust1555 lug1577 pipe?1578 to suck at1584 slup1598 reswill1614 imbibe1621 tug1698 absorb1821 tipple1824 inhaust1848 down1869 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 9286 With hys teþe he gan to drawe, And harde for to tugge and gnawe. a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Abbot of Tungland in Poems (1998) I. 58 And evir the tuschettis at him tuggit, The rukis him rent, the ravynis him druggit. a1627 T. Middleton No Wit (1657) ii. 65 The streams of Fortune 'Gainst which he tugs in vain. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 51 The Men tugged stoutly at their Paddles. a1721 M. Prior Dialogues of Dead & Other Wks. 381 If you are always tugging at your Purse Strings, you may chance to break them. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xii. 485 Sarpedon..with both hands Tugg'd, and down fell the battlement entire. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xvii. 277 Tugging at her pocket to get out the package. b. In phrase to tug at the (an) oar, to row as a galley slave; hence figurative to toil unremittingly; to labour in a subordinate capacity; to do the drudgery. Cf. oar n. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > working > [verb (intransitive)] > work hard or toil workeOE swingc1000 to the boneOE labourc1390 toilc1400 drevyll?1518 drudge1548 droy1576 droil1591 to tug at the (an) oar1612 to stand to it1632 rudge1676 slave1707 to work like a beaver1741 to hold (also keep, bring, put) one's nose to the grindstone1828 to feague it away1829 to work like a nigger1836 delve1838 slave1852 leather1863 to sweat one's guts out1890 hunker1903 to sweat (also work) one's guts out1932 to eat (also work) like a horse1937 beaver1946 to work like a drover's dog1952 to get one's nose down (to)1962 the world > action or operation > manner of action > effort or exertion > exert oneself or make an effort [verb (intransitive)] > toil > steadily or dully plod1562 to tug at the (an) oar1612 plot1621 grub1735 grind1855 plough1891 stodge1912 1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good sig. B Hels drudge, her Gally-slaue. I ha' wore, My flesh toth' bones..at the Oaer Tugging. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 295 We must sit here..and tug at the Oar, while they steer which way they please. a1764 R. Lloyd Author's Apol. 21 Oh! 'Tis a service irksome more Than tugging at the slavish oar. 1875 A. Maclaren Serm. 2nd Ser. viii. 145 Kept him tugging away all his life at the oar, administering the affairs of a Kingdom. c. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 103 Tugging at a large Rummer of Rhenish and Sugar. 1833 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Loire 79 How many recollections tugged at his heart as he went on! 1860 R. W. Emerson Considerations in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 241 All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair. d. The verb-stem used adverbially. ΚΠ 1849 G. Cupples Green Hand iv, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 310/2 Tug came both Mrs Brady's hands through his hair. 7. a. transitive. [ < tug n.¹ 6.] To tow by means of a steam-tug. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > propelling other than by sail or oars > propel boat other than by sail or oars [verb (transitive)] > tow > by specific method cordelle1812 tug1839 push-tow1955 1839 J. M. W. Turner (title of painting) The Fighting Téméraire Tugged to her Last Berth to be Broken Up. b. To tow (a glider) by means of a powered aircraft. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > gliding and hang-gliding > [verb (transitive)] > tow glider tug1942 1942 W. S. Churchill Second World War (1951) IV. 800 The Whitley aircraft..is unsuitable for tugging gliders. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹1417n.²1896adj.1890v.a1225
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