lug
IPA: ɫˈʌg
noun
- The act of hauling or dragging.
- That which is hauled or dragged.
- Anything that moves slowly.
- A lug nut.
- (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.
- A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
- A large, clumsy, awkward man; a fool.
- (UK) An ear or ear lobe.
- A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
- (slang) A request for money, as for political purposes.
- A lugworm.
- (informal) A pull or drag on a cigarette.
- (UK, dialect) A rod or pole.
- (UK, archaic, dialect) A measure of length equal to 16+¹⁄₂ feet.
- (nautical) A lugsail.
- (harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
- A loop (or protuberance) found on both arms of a hinge, featuring a hole for the axis of the hinge.
- A ridge or other protuberance on the surface of a body to increase traction or provide a hold for holding and moving it.
- Alternative spelling of Lugh [(Irish mythology) A pre-Christian Irish deity represented in mythological texts as a hero and High King of the distant past: the son of Cian and Ethniu.]
- Initialism of lesbian until graduation. [(slang, LGBT) A woman of high school or college age who is experimenting with or temporarily adopting a lesbian or bisexual identity.]
- (computing) Initialism of Linux user group.
verb
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull.
- (transitive) To run at too slow a speed.
- (transitive, nautical) To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.
- (intransitive, horse-racing) To pull toward the inside rail ("lugging in") or the outside rail ("lugging out") during a race.
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Examples of "lug" in Sentences
- Someone without experience could easily touch a ground wire to a main lug.
- NGUYEN: At first, except this chug a lug was a middle school class and the students were drinking milk.
- The best kind of sail is the lug, which is an elongated square sail -- shown in the accompanying illustration.
- -- Gibbie nodded and she resumed: -- "But gien ye wad tak a lug o 'a Fin'on haddie wi' me at nine o'clock, I wad be prood."
- On the T3, the recoil lug is permanently embedded in the stock, with just its upper edge showing, and this edge fits into a groove on the receiver.
- "lug" -- the clover and other green things cut with the crop that make it so rich a food for the cattle -- showing through the stems here and there.
- Gibcrokes and recons were local and less frequent names, and the folks who in their dialect called the lug-pole a gallows-balke called the pothooks gallows-crooks.
- Seasonal helpers who sign up in the tasting room at River Ridge pick grapes by hand on the six-acre vineyard and place them into a "lug" -- a tub that holds 22 to 24 pounds of grapes.
- The inflammable catted chimney of logs and clay, hurriedly and readily built by the first settlers, soon gave place in all houses to vast chimneys of stone, built with projecting inner ledges, on which rested a bar about six or seven or even eight feet from the floor, called a lug-pole (lug meaning to carry) or a back-bar; this was made of green wood, and thus charred slowly -- but it charred surely in the generous flames of the great chimney heart.
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