Definition of "lug"

lug¹

/lʌɡ/

noun
plural lugs
1. The act of hauling or dragging.
2. That which is hauled or dragged.
3. Anything that moves slowly.
  Quotations
  whereof the one is quick of cast, trick, and trim both for pleasure and profit: the other is a lug
  1544 (date written; published 1571), Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole, or Partitions, of Shooting. […], London: […] Thomas Marshe; republished in The English Works of Roger Ascham, […], London: […] R[obert] and J[ames] Dodsley, […], and J[ohn] Newbery, […], 1761,
4. A lug nut.
5. (electricity) A device for terminating an electrical conductor to facilitate the mechanical connection; to the conductor it may be crimped to form a cold weld, soldered or have pressure from a screw.
6. A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
7. A large, clumsy, awkward man; a fool.
8. (UK) An ear or ear lobe.
9. A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
10. (slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.
11. A lugworm.
12. (informal) A pull or drag on a cigarette.
  Quotations
  He took another long lug on his cigarette before continuing quietly, 'I've seen too much and it was seriously screwing me up. […]
  2013, Paul Burke, The Man Who Fell In Love With His Wife
verb
third-person singular simple present lugs, present participle lugging, simple past and past participle lugged
1. (transitive, sometimes figurative) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.
  Quotations
  They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share.
  c. 1700, Jeremy Collier, A Thought
  As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling to Aunt like mastodons bellowing across primeval swamps and Uncle James's letter about Cousin Mabel's peculiar behaviour is being shot round the family circle... the clan has a tendency to ignore me.
  1923, P. G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves
  Luggage areas need to be within sight, rather than at the end of carriages, despite the inconvenience of lugging cases further into a carriage.
  2021 July 14, Anthony Lambert, “Grand designs on superior interiors”, in RAIL, number 935, page 48
2. (transitive) To run at too slow a speed.
3. (transitive, nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
4. (intransitive, horse-racing) To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.

lug²

/lʌɡ/

noun
plural lugs
1. (UK, dialect) A rod or pole.
  Quotations
  And from the bodies [of pines and oaks] the boughes and loftie lugges they beare.
  1567, George Turberville, Epitome
2. (UK, archaic, dialect) A measure of length equal to 16+1⁄2 feet.
  Quotations
  eight lugs of grownd; / Into the which returning backe, he fell
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 11
3. (nautical) A lugsail.
4. (harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.Harness pendant suspension mount featuring two lugs (at the bottom). The pendant has one lug (also named loop), placed in the gap between the two lugs of the hanger.
5. A loop (or protuberance) found on both arms of a hinge, featuring a hole for the axis of the hinge.
6. A ridge or other protuberance on the surface of a body to increase traction or provide a hold for holding and moving it.

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