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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



... 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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