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Tug   /təg/   Listen
noun
Tug  n.  
1.
A pull with the utmost effort, as in the athletic contest called tug of war; a supreme effort. "At the tug he falls, Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls."
2.
A sort of vehicle, used for conveying timber and heavy articles. (Prov. Eng.)
3.
(Naut.) A small, powerful steamboat used to tow vessels; called also steam tug, tugboat, and towboat.
4.
A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
5.
(Mining.) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
Tug iron, an iron hook or button to which a tug or trace may be attached, as on the shaft of a wagon.


verb
Tug  v. t.  (past & past part. tugged; pres. part. tugging)  
1.
To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port. "There sweat, there strain, tug the laborious oar."
2.
To pull; to pluck. (Obs.) "To ease the pain, His tugged cars suffered with a strain."


Tug  v. i.  
1.
To pull with great effort; to strain in labor; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream. "He tugged, he shook, till down they came."
2.
To labor; to strive; to struggle. "England now is left To tug and scamble and to part by the teeth The unowed interest of proud-swelling state."





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"Tug" Quotes from Famous Books



... stirred up a ladey's hair appears nowadays, the hire she stands in the eyes of the Bon tung. A waterfall which will go into a store door without the wearer stoopin over, hain't considered of suffishent altitood for a fashinable got-up femme de sham to tug around. ...
— Punchinello, Vol. II. No. 38, Saturday, December 17, 1870. • Various
... their accustomed places upon the horse-hair sofa. Her head sank upon his shoulder, her hands clasped his, her eyes were wet with tears. A siren blew from the river. A little tug, with two barges lashed alongside, was coming valiantly along. The dark coil of water seemed suddenly agleam with ...
— The Lighted Way • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... Fates command us to repeat; And to their wills we must succumb, Quocunque trahunt, 'tis our doom. 460 This is the same numeric crew Which we so lately did subdue; The self-same individuals that Did run as mice do from a cat, When we courageously did wield 465 Our martial weapons in the field To tug for victory; and when We shall our shining blades agen Brandish in terror o'er our heads, They'll straight resume their wonted dreads. 470 Fear is an ague, that forsakes And haunts by fits those whom it takes: ...
— Hudibras • Samuel Butler
... the mate drew more upon the hose than before—so much so, indeed, that he threatened to draw the upper ends under water—and the captain gave a warning tug at the rope, to apprise him that he must venture no further. The warning was heeded, and when, a few minutes later, the diver was helped to terra firma again, his ...
— Adrift on the Pacific • Edward S. Ellis
... I asked, with that forlorn tug at inner reserves which life teaches us to send over the wire as we ...
— The Prairie Mother • Arthur Stringer


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