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Lug

noun

Ancient Celtic god. Synonym: Lugh.

A sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast. Synonym: lugsail.

A projecting piece that is used to lift or support or turn something.

Marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait. Synonyms: lobworm, lugworm.

verb

(past & past part. lugged; pres. part. lugging)

Carry with difficulty. Synonyms: tote, tug.

Obstruct. Synonyms: block, choke up, stuff. "Her arteries are blocked" Antonym: unstuff.

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"Lug" Quotes from Famous Books

... specimen, a succession of deep mud-holes, round some of which we skirted cautiously, wondering how "Stick-in-the-Mud" would get through, and plunging into some swamps, which seemed to tax all the strength our team could exert to lug us out again. We soon arrived at the great Cariboo muskeg, on the smooth squared-timber road. This muskeg must, at some earlier stage of the world's existence, have been a great lake full of islands; now it is a grassy ...

— A Trip to Manitoba • Mary FitzGibbon

... reading of the ship's bible will take up most of the morning," said gunner's mate "Patt," as he emerged from the hatch after "Steve," wiping his grimy hands on a wad of waste, for he had been giving the guns a rub. "And if we don't have to go chasing an imaginary Spaniard or lug coal from the after hold forward, we'll ...

— A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" • Russell Doubleday

... only reason for calling. I have to give an ambulance lecture in your schoolroom to-morrow evening: and I came to ask if you had a wall-map or chart of the human body to help me along. Otherwise I shall have to lug over a lot of medical books with plates and pass 'em around: and the plates are mixed up with others. . . . Well, you understand, they're not everybody's picture-gallery. That's to say, you can't pass a lot of books around and ...

— Nicky-Nan, Reservist • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)

... when his pulse beat as gloriously as the bass drum on a grand circus-entry into town, yet when he has to go to the depot to take the cars for that same town to sell goods there for the first time in his life, it is harder to carry his heart to the train than it is to lug his grip-sacks. When you feel that way, do not feel ashamed. All the "old heads" on the road have been in that predicament. Talk to your heart the way you think about a mother when she mourns for ...

— The Golden Censer - The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future • John McGovern

... dog (so called) was a cross between a stag-hound and mastiff, very fast and powerful, and he ran only by sight. A well-trained dog on overhauling his pig will run up on the near side and seize the boar by the off lug, thereby protecting himself from being ripped by the animal's tusks. Then the hunter should be on the spot to jump off his horse and assist the dog by plunging his knife into the beast's heart ...

— Five Years in New Zealand - 1859 to 1864 • Robert B. Booth

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