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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



... with both sides) came in, and informed every body of any circumstances that tended to make both parties in the wrong. I am impatient to hear how this operates between my Lady Pomfret and her friend, Lady Bel. Don't you remember how the Countess used to lug a half-length picture of the latter behind her post-chaise all over Italy, and have a new frame made for it in every town where she stopped? and have you forgot their correspondence, that poor lady ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 1 • Horace Walpole

... lay an' he tummled; the gude, caller bed that he got into brunt his very banes; whiles he slept, and whiles he waukened; whiles he heard the time o' nicht, and whiles a tyke yowlin' up the muir, as if somebody was deid; whiles he thocht he heard bogles claverin' in his lug, an' whiles he saw spunkies in the room. He behoved, he judged, to be sick; an' sick he was—little he jaloosed ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) - Ghost Stories • Various

... and gasket, we fought the struggling wind-possessed monster, and again the leach was passed along the yard. A turn of the gasket would have held it, but even the leading hands at the bunt were as weak and breathless as ourselves. The squall caught at an open lug, and again the sail bellied out, thrashing fiendishly ...
— The Brassbounder - A Tale of the Sea • David W. Bone

... 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 her child. You say "Let her feel bad. It's ...
— The Golden Censer - The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future • John McGovern

... fidget, begged to take the books from M. d'Arblay, terrified, I imagine, lest French feet should contaminate the gravel within!—while he, innocent of her fears, was insisting upon carrying them as far as to the house, till he saw I took part with Miss Planta, and he was then compelled to let us lug in ten ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3 • Madame D'Arblay


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