lug

Probably from Old Norse (compare Swedish lugga, Norwegian lugge). Noun is via Scots lugge, probably from Old Norse (compare Norwegian and Swedish lugg). Probably related to slug (“lazy, slow-moving”), which is from similar Scandinavian sources.

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: lŭg, IPA^(key): /lʌɡ/
• Rhymes: -ʌɡ

lug (plural lugs)

1. The act of hauling or dragging.

   a hard lug

2. That which is hauled or dragged.

   The pack is a heavy lug.

3. Anything that moves slowly.

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4. A lug nut.

   Synonym: 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 fool, a large man.

   Synonym: big lug

8. (Britain) An ear or ear lobe.

   While shaving, the poor sod had a fit and cut part of a lug off.

9. A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
10. (slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.

    They put the lug on him at the courthouse.

11. (Britain, dialectal) A rod or pole.

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12. (Britain, dialectal) A measure of length equal to 16½ feet.
    • Spenser

      Eight lugs of ground.

13. (nautical) A lugsail.
14. (harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
15. A lugworm.
16. The loop (or protuberance) that exist on both arms of a hinge, featuring a hole for the axis of the hinge

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

• (protruding support): launch lug

lug (third-person singular simple present lugs, present participle lugging, simple past and past participle lugged)

1. (transitive) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull, including its figurative senses.
   • 1923, P.G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves:

     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.

   • Collier

     They must divide the image among them, and so lug off every one his share.

   Why do you always lug around so many books?

2. (transitive) To run at too slow a speed.

   When driving up a hill, choose a lower gear so you don't lug the engine.

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.

• luggage

• The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, →ISBN
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896,

• Gul

From Dutch lucht.

• IPA^(key): /lœχ/

lug (uncountable, diminutive luggie)

1. air

The plural form of lug is lugte, but it exists only in literary texts and is otherwise never used.

From Proto-Albanian *lug(ā), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leuK- (“to gulp/drink (down), swallow”). Cognate to Lithuanian liũgas (“morass”), Old Norse slok (“trough, spillway”), Middle High German slūch (“gulf, abyss”)[1]. Possibly related to Illyrian *Loúgeon, a toponym denoting a swampy place in Strabo. Plural lugje.

lug m

1. trough, (water)channel, spillway
2. groove (especially in trees)
3. valley (between mountains or hills through which a river or creek flows)

lug m (genitive singular luga, nominative plural luganna)

1. (mechanics) lug

• lug seoil (“lugsail”)

• "lug" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “lug” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Akin to Finnish luku.

lug

1. number

lug

1. Romanization of ᚂᚒᚌ

From Old Norse lok.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlǿʉːɣ]

lug n

1. weed, unwanted plant

From Proto-Slavic *lǫgъ.

lȗg m (Cyrillic spelling лу̑г)

1. lye

From Proto-Slavic *lǫgъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlùːk/, /ˈlúːk/
• Tonal orthography: lúg, lȗg

lúg m inan (genitive lúga, uncountable)

1. lye