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Tug   /təg/   Listen
Tug

noun
1.
A sudden abrupt pull.  Synonym: jerk.
2.
A powerful small boat designed to pull or push larger ships.  Synonyms: towboat, tower, tugboat.
verb
(past & past part. tugged; pres. part. tugging)
1.
Pull hard.  "This movie tugs at the heart strings"
2.
Strive and make an effort to reach a goal.  Synonyms: drive, labor, labour, push.  "We have to push a little to make the deadline!" , "She is driving away at her doctoral thesis"
3.
Tow (a vessel) with a tug.
4.
Carry with difficulty.  Synonyms: lug, tote.
5.
Move by pulling hard.
6.
Pull or strain hard at.
7.
Struggle in opposition.



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"Tug" Quotes from Famous Books



... Oliver Lodge continues to maintain that it is, the Doctrine of the Resurrection is safe; it is not even attacked. But the net result of all those peculiar modern things called "movements" is a state of immobility like a nicely balanced tug-of-war. Perhaps a Rugby scrum ...
— G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study • Julius West
... tug of war was to get the bill through the lower House. Fabulous stories were told of money which would be expended and the market quotations for votes never soared so high. Then, at the critical moment, Vanderbilt ...
— The Railroad Builders - A Chronicle of the Welding of the States, Volume 38 in The - Chronicles of America Series • John Moody
... boy was gone. They spent the night in the kirk in prayer, when the minister said, "Why not ask God to restore his body?" and they did. They put out to sea and journeyed sixty miles until he told them to stop and when they let over the grappling hooks they knew by the very tug of the rope that they had his body. They bore it back again to the broken-hearted captain and his wife, who had all the time been waiting in the kirk in prayer. May God teach ...
— And Judas Iscariot - Together with other evangelistic addresses • J. Wilbur Chapman
... to tug thrice before a discordant bell sounded within the house, and twice again before footsteps began to shuffle ...
— The Blue Pavilions • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... not smile softly as in summer evenings, but became muddy, gray, and suddenly grew cold, wintry. Golovin heaved a sigh, stretched himself, glanced again twice at the window, but the cold darkness of the night alone was there; then continuing to tug at his short beard, he began to examine with childish curiosity the judges, the soldiers with their muskets, and he smiled at Tanya Kovalchuk. When the sky had darkened Musya calmly, without lowering her eyes to the ground, turned them to the corner where a small cobweb was quivering ...
— The Seven who were Hanged • Leonid Andreyev


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