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Lug

noun

Ancient Celtic god. Synonym: Lugh.

A sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast. Synonym: lugsail.

A projecting piece that is used to lift or support or turn something.

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)

Carry with difficulty. Synonyms: tote, tug.

Obstruct. Synonyms: block, choke up, stuff. "Her arteries are blocked"

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"Lug" Quotes from Famous Books

... good-sized half-decked boat of some twenty-six feet long and eight feet beam. She was very deep, and carried three tons of stone ballast in her bottom. She drew about six feet of water. She had a lot of freeboard, and carried two lug-sails and a small mizzen. ...

— One of the 28th • G. A. Henty

... sat a head below any one of the three. I found afterwards that really none were taller than myself; but their bodies were abnormally long, and the thigh-part of the leg short and curiously twisted. At any rate, they were an amazingly ugly gang, and over the heads of them under the forward lug peered the black face of the man whose eyes were luminous in the dark. As I stared at them, they met my gaze; and then first one and then another turned away from my direct stare, and looked at me in an odd, furtive ...

— The Island of Doctor Moreau • H. G. Wells

... rubbish of innumerable generations make the visitor wish that each passing century could carry off all its fragments and relics along with it, instead of adding them to the continually accumulating burden which human knowledge is compelled to lug upon its back. As for the fame, I know not what has become ...

— Our Old Home - A Series of English Sketches • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... the chest wiped clean; and next Nettie set about bringing all her things up the stairs and setting them here, where she could. Her clothes, her little bit of a looking-glass, her Bible and books and slate, even her little washstand, she managed to lug up to the attic; with many a journey and much pains. But it was about done, before her mother called her to breakfast. The two lagging members of the family had been roused at last, and were ...

— The Carpenter's Daughter • Anna Bartlett Warner

... comes," said Liston, as the sail came down on the first tack. He was mistaken; they dipped the lug as cleverly as any man in ...

— Christie Johnstone • Charles Reade

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