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Lug   /ləg/   Listen
Lug

noun
1.
Ancient Celtic god.  Synonym: Lugh.
2.
A sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast.  Synonym: lugsail.
3.
A projecting piece that is used to lift or support or turn something.
4.
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)
1.
Carry with difficulty.  Synonyms: tote, tug.
2.
Obstruct.  Synonyms: block, choke up, stuff.  "Her arteries are blocked"  Antonym: unstuff.



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"Lug" Quotes from Famous Books



... be walking up the dock at Boston with that on your arm," jeered Roger. "It will never go in any trunk and you'll have to carry it everywhere you go. You needn't ask me to lug it, either." ...
— The Spanish Chest • Edna A. Brown
... calm came on. Our white wings flapped idly on the mast, and only the top-gallant sails were bent enough occasionally to lug us along at a mile an hour. A barque from Ceylon, making the most of the wind, with every rag of canvass set, passed us slowly on the way eastward. The sun went down unclouded, and a glorious starry night brooded over us. ...
— Views a-foot • J. Bayard Taylor
... Now we come to the figure who represents the Fifth Race. There are in Europe perhaps a dozen cities named after Lugh Lamfada, the Irish (indeed Celtic) Sun-god: Lyons, the most important of them, was Lug-dunum, the dun or fortress of Lugh. Lugh was a kind of counterpart to Bres; he was the son of Cian, a Danaan, and a daughter of the Fomorian champion Balor of the Mighty Blows, or of the Evil Eye. The story of ...
— The Crest-Wave of Evolution • Kenneth Morris
... old man. "Got my arms full o' this yer stuff, or I'd shake hands. I've a lot more o' comforts for wife and young uns in the wagon; but I thought I'd lug along suthin, or they wouldn't be glad to ...
— The Young Surveyor; - or Jack on the Prairies • J. T. Trowbridge
... "Yuh goin' t' lug this coyote bait t' Fort Walsh?" Piegan inquired. "I'd leave 'em right here without the ceremony uh plantin'. An' I vote right here an' now t' neck these other two geesers together an' run 'em off'n a high ...
— Raw Gold - A Novel • Bertrand W. Sinclair


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