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Lug   /ləg/   Listen
noun
Lug  n.  
1.
The ear, or its lobe. (Scot. & Prov. Eng.)
2.
That which projects like an ear, esp. that by which anything is supported, carried, or grasped, or to which a support is fastened; an ear; as, the lugs of a kettle; the lugs of a founder's flask; the lug (handle) of a jug.
3.
(Mach.) A projecting piece to which anything, as a rod, is attached, or against which anything, as a wedge or key, bears, or through which a bolt passes, etc.
4.
(Harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
5.
(Zool.) The lugworm.
6.
A man; sometimes implying clumsiness. (slang)
Lug bolt (Mach.), a bolt terminating in a long, flat extension which takes the place of a head; a strap bolt.
Lug nut (Mach.), a large nut fitting a heavy bolt; used especially of the nuts used to attach wheels to vehicles.
Lug wrench (Mach.), a wrench used to tighten or loosen lug nuts, usually a steel rod having a hexagonally shaped socket which fits closely over the lug nut; sometimes in the shape of a cross, having several such sockets, one at the end of each arm, to accommodate nuts of different sizes.



Lug  n.  
1.
The act of lugging; as, a hard lug; that which is lugged; as, the pack is a heavy lug. (Colloq.)
2.
Anything which moves slowly. (Obs.)



Lug  n.  
1.
A rod or pole. (Prov. Eng.)
2.
A measure of length, being 16½ feet; a rod, pole, or perch. (Obs.) " Eight lugs of ground."
Chimney lug, or Lug pole, a pole on which a kettle is hung over the fire, either in a chimney or in the open air. (Local, U.S.)



verb
Lug  v. i.  (past & past part. lugged; pres. part. lugging)  To pull with force; to haul; to drag along; to carry with difficulty, as something heavy or cumbersome. "They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share."



Lug  v. i.  To move slowly and heavily.






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"Lug" Quotes from Famous Books



... out past his cigar, "if we tried to lug along every panhandling artist that wanted to graft rent off us, we'd be in fine shape by the end of the year, ...
— The House of Torchy • Sewell Ford

... was as good as he was. And she stayed in the business all her life. And what was good enough for Jim O'Neil's wife was good enough for his kid—and is good enough to-day. Now I've got him, and I'm a-going to lug him back—by the scruff of the neck, if ...
— The Corner House Girls at School • Grace Brooks Hill

... can turn quickly. They're good sea-boats, too, and can sail almost up into the wind's eye, with their large lateen sails, which are cut something like an old- fashioned leg of mutton, or short tack lug. The stem of them rises high out of the water, having a poop on it, which is thatched over with matting and banana leaves; and altogether they don't look unlike a Chinese junk. Some of the bigger dhows, which are used as war craft by the Arab chiefs of Lamoi and Mozambique, ...
— The Penang Pirate - and, The Lost Pinnace • John Conroy Hutcheson

... terrible dose o' the cauld lest week. I never hardly saw him so bad. He was ootbye at the plooin' match lest Wedensday, an' he's hardly ever been ootower the door sin' syne. There was a nesty plook cam' oot juist abune his lug on Setarday, an' he cudna get on his lum hat; so he had to bide at hame a' Sabbath, an' he spent the feck o' the day i' the hoose readin' Tammas Boston's "Power-fold State" an' the "Pilgrim's Progress." Ye see, Sandy's ...
— My Man Sandy • J. B. Salmond

... agreed the good woman. "But, there! how the baggage men do grumble at having to lug up big trunks like ...
— Blue Aloes - Stories of South Africa • Cynthia Stockley


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