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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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... me as a really marvellous feat; but what was our surprise as we approached the high cliffs which guard the entrance to see dense columns of smoke arising, and to feel the offshore wind grow hotter and hotter as the pilot tug towed us between the headlands. For the third time in its history the city of ...
— A Labrador Doctor - The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
... these occasions he did observe a little steam-tug, going about a knot an hour, and rolling like a washing-tub. He ran down to her, and asked if he could assist her; she answered, through the medium of a sooty animal at her helm, that she was (like our universities) "satisfied with her own progress"; she added, being under ...
— Christie Johnstone • Charles Reade
... In the realm of sport a later achievement of the Battalion deserves record. On July 27 at the XI Corps horse-show our team won the open tug-of-war.] ...
— The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry • G. K. Rose
... was breaking on July 10, 1916, a submarine came alongside a tug in Hampton Roads and asked for a pilot. The pilot went aboard and found himself on the subsea freighter Deutschland, first merchant submarine to be built and the first to make a voyage. She came from Bremerhaven, a distance of 4,000 miles, in ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) • Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
... was the first mayor of Sequoia. At forty-four he was standing on his dock one day, watching his tug kick into her berth the first square-rigged ship that had ever come to Humboldt Bay to load a cargo of clear redwood for foreign delivery. She was a big Bath-built clipper, and her master a lusty down-Easter, a widower with one daughter who had come with him around the Horn. John Cardigan ...
— The Valley of the Giants • Peter B. Kyne


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