Lug

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  • intransitive verb. To drag or haul (an object) laboriously.
  • intransitive verb. To pull or drag with short jerks.
  • intransitive verb. To cause (an engine, for example) to run poorly or hesitate.
  • intransitive verb. To pull something with difficulty; tug.
  • intransitive verb. To move along by jerks or as if under a heavy burden.
  • intransitive verb. To run poorly or hesitate because of strain. Used of an engine.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The act of lugging.
  • noun. Something lugged.
  • noun. A box for shipping fruit or vegetables.
  • noun. A handle or projection used as a hold or support.
  • noun. A lug nut.
  • noun. A lugsail.
  • noun. A projecting part of a larger piece that helps to provide traction, as on a tire or the sole of a boot.
  • noun. A copper or brass fitting to which electrical wires can be soldered or otherwise connected.
  • noun. A clumsy fool; a blockhead.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To pull with force or effort, as something that is heavy or resists; haul; drag.
  • To carry, as something heavy or burdensome; bear laboriously.
  • Especially To drag or pull about by the ears or head, as a bear or a bull, to excite it to action; bait; worry.
  • To geld.
  • To pull with effort: followed by at.
  • To move heavily, or with resistance; drag.
  • noun. A rod or pole.
  • noun. A pliable rod or twig such as is used in thatching.
  • noun. A measure of length, properly 15 feet 1 inch, but sometimes 16½, 18, or 20 feet (a lug of coppicewood in Herefordshire was 49 square yards); a pole or perch.
  • noun. Anything that moves slowly or with difficulty; something of a heavy, lumpish, or sluggish nature.
  • noun. Same as lug-sail.
  • noun. plural Affected manners; “airs”: as, to put on lugs.
  • To form with a lug or projection: as, to lug a door-sill (that is, to hollow out or chamfer off the upper and outer angle of the stone to within a short distance of each end, the parts not cut away forming the lugs).
  • noun. The lobe of the ear.
  • noun. The ear.
  • noun. A projecting part of some object resembling more or less in form or position the human ear.
  • noun. In machinery, a projecting piece; specifically, a short flange by or to which something is fastened.
  • noun. A projecting piece upon a founders' flask or mold.
  • noun. In single harness, one of the two loops of leather dependent from the saddle, one on each side, through which the shafts are passed for support.
  • noun. The arm of a bee-frame.
  • noun. A jamb or side wall of a recess, as a fireplace.
  • noun. A grade of tobacco.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A rod or pole.
  • noun. A measure of length, being 161/2 feet; a rod, pole, or perch.
  • noun. a pole on which a kettle is hung over the fire, either in a chimney or in the open air.
  • noun. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To move slowly and heavily.
  • noun. The ear, or its lobe.
  • noun. 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
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
  • noun. The lugworm.
  • noun. A man; sometimes implying clumsiness.
  • noun. a bolt terminating in a long, flat extension which takes the place of a head; a strap bolt.
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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    lug pole  
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    Bug  Doug  Zug  antidrug  bug  
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    adapter  axle  bolt  bracket  buckle  
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    lugged  lugging  
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    lugged  lugging  lugs