lugger
/ˈlʌɡəɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.88 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”).
noun
Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”).
noun
Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”).
noun
Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”).
Derogatory; Slang
noun
Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”).
Australian usage; American usage; Slang
verb
Synonym of lug (“to drag or haul (someone or something, especially when heavy); to carry, to pull”).
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Tireur: […] A dravver, puller, plucker, baler, lugger, tugger, tovver; […]"
- "The horse [a racehorse] was a lugger – lugging into the rail all the time. I had to fight hard to keep him running straight and we won – but the stewards said I interfered with another horse and I was moved to second."
- "Micheal Kelleher was employed by the Swift Co., on Sept. 10, 1914, as a meat lugger. While engaged in carrying meat to the storage plant elevator a tag fastener was tossed toward him by a fellow employe. It struck him over the right eye. He lost the sight of the eye."
- "Robert Taillon, a lugger at Rapid, testified that in December 1997, Carlos Diaz and Michel Labrosse began to train Rene Delage as a lugger for the large transformers."
- "The feds also figured that the casino's annual payroll was $350,000. An estimated 50 luggers were employed to bring gamblers to Reading."
- "The Canadian [Ned] Hanlan represents what since the introduction of the slide may be called the scientific side of sculling; his Australian competitor [Elias Connell Laycock], though by no means such a mere "lugger" as his countryman [Edward] Trickett, trusts much less to style and mechanical finish."
Etymology
Etymology tree English lug Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English lugger From lug (verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns, and frequentative verbs).
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈlʌɡəɹ/
- British English: /ˈlʌɡə/