LUG (lugged, lugging)

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Irregular inflected forms: lugged    , lugging   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lug mean? 

• LUG (noun)
  The noun LUG has 4 senses:

1. ancient Celtic god

2. a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast

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

4. marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait

  Familiarity information: LUG used as a noun is uncommon.

• LUG (verb)
  The verb LUG has 2 senses:

1. carry with difficulty

2. obstruct

  Familiarity information: LUG used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ancient Celtic god

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Lug; Lugh

Instance hypernyms:

Celtic deity (a deity worshipped by the Celts)

Domain category:

antiquity (the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe)

Domain region:

Emerald Isle; Hibernia; Ireland (an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

lug; lugsail

Hypernyms ("lug" is a kind of...):

fore-and-aft sail (any sail not set on a yard and whose normal position is in a fore-and-aft direction)

Holonyms ("lug" is a part of...):

junk (any of various Chinese boats with a high poop and lugsails)

lugger (small fishing boat rigged with one or more lugsails)

Sense 3

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("lug" is a kind of...):

projection (any structure that branches out from a central support)

Holonyms ("lug" is a part of...):

lug wrench (a wrench with jaws that have projecting lugs to engage the object that is to be rotated)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

lobworm; lug; lugworm

Hypernyms ("lug" is a kind of...):

polychaete; polychaete worm; polychete; polychete worm (chiefly marine annelids possessing both sexes and having paired appendages (parapodia) bearing bristles)

Holonyms ("lug" is a member of...):

class Polychaeta; Polychaeta (marine annelid worms)

• LUG (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they lug    ... he / she / it lugs   
Past simple: lugged   
Past participle: lugged   
-ing form: lugging   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Carry with difficulty

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

lug; tote; tug

Context example:

You'll have to lug this suitcase

Hypernyms (to "lug" is one way to...):

carry; transport (move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

luggage (cases used to carry belongings when traveling)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Obstruct

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

block; choke up; lug; stuff

Context example:

Her arteries are blocked

Hypernyms (to "lug" is one way to...):

back up; choke; choke off; clog; clog up; congest; foul (become or cause to become obstructed)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

You have nothing to stand on, you unscientific dogmatists with your positive science which you are always lugging about into places it has no right to be.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Starting from a dispute as to which should chop a few sticks for the fire (a dispute which concerned only Charles and Hal), presently would be lugged in the rest of the family, fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, people thousands of miles away, and some of them dead.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I expressed my thanks; and Mr. Peggotty, after looking at Ham, who stood smiling sheepishly over the shellfish, without making any attempt to help him, said: “We come, you see, the wind and tide making in our favour, in one of our Yarmouth lugs to Gravesen”.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Again: because it is a general complaint, that the favourites of princes are troubled with short and weak memories; the same doctor proposed, that whoever attended a first minister, after having told his business, with the utmost brevity and in the plainest words, should, at his departure, give the said minister a tweak by the nose, or a kick in the belly, or tread on his corns, or lug him thrice by both ears, or run a pin into his breech; or pinch his arm black and blue, to prevent forgetfulness; and at every levee day, repeat the same operation, till the business were done, or absolutely refused.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)