lug1
/lʌɡ
/verb (lugs, lugging, lugged) [with object and adverbial of direction]
1Carry or drag (a heavy or bulky object) with great effort: she began to lug her suitcase down the stairs...
- He regularly covered 30 miles in a day lugging a rucksack heavy with specimens.
- And why should people struggle home from supermarkets lugging heavy bottles of water?
- Between the two of them, they managed to pick up all of Amy's suitcases and then they began to slowly lug them towards the lifts.
Synonyms
carry, lift, bear, tote, heave, hoist, shoulder, manhandle;
haul, drag, pull, tug, tow, transport, move, take, bring, convey, shift, fetch
informal hump, schlep
Scottish informal humph
1.1Be encumbered with: he had lugged his poor wife round for so long...
- Worse yet, Japan's banks face daunting competitive pressures while lugging all this negative baggage.
noun
A box or crate used for transporting fruit: a truck piled high with wooden lugs of grapes
Origin
Late Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin: compare with Swedish lugga 'pull a person's hair' (from lugg 'forelock').
Rhymes
lug2
/lʌɡ/noun
1 (usually lugs) Scottish & Northern English or informal A person’s ear: I couldn’t hear what they were saying with that leather over my lugs...
- His latest strategy - which he's toyed with before but is introducing in force this year - targets the lugs of youth, which he believes can be attuned to classical music once prised from more strident stimulations.
2A projection on an object by which it may be carried or fixed in place: mount the fitting directly to the lugs at each side of the box...
- Locking lug recesses are integral, with the barrel and the three bolt lugs lock directly into the barrel.
- Remington's has a pair of lugs on either side of the bottom barrel that mate with corresponding cuts in the frame.
- On the Tiber side, however, Piranesi has had to adjust the placement of the upper side of the lug to make it fit as tightly against the Tiber bank as the main corner of the compound.
3 informal, chiefly North American A loutish man: he plays a hood who, despite his fancy clothes, remains a lug...
- Maybe that big lug might have been a good choice to come along.
- Lewis needed two navigators, two watch captains, and two more primary helmsmen, plus some big, strong lugs to grind the deck winches, and versatile guys who could handle the bow and the mast.
- She is far from immune to the lovable Raymond, but she really carries a torch for his big lug of a brother.
Origin
Late 15th century (denoting the ear flap of a hat): probably of Scandinavian origin: compare with Swedish lugg 'forelock, nap of cloth'. (sense 3) is perhaps from the 19th-century term denoting the lowest grade of tobacco.
lug3
/lʌɡ/noun
Short for lugworm.The bulk of cod fishing is done with worm baits, usually lugworm due to the copious amounts of blood juice the lug holds, but also ragworm....
- The best baits are mackerel and squid strips cut about three to four inches long by about half an inch wide - or maybe king ragworm or lug.
lug4
/ləɡ
/noun
Short for lugsail.