Antonyms for lugging

Grammar : Verb

Spell : luhg

Phonetic Transcription : lʌg

Definition of lugging

Origin : late 14c., "to move (something) heavily or slowly," from Scandinavian (cf. Swedish lugga, Norwegian lugge "to pull by the hair"); see lug (n.). Related: Lugged; lugging.

verb drag something around

Example sentences :

Lugging a fellow up for a pitiful, paltry sum of twenty pounds!
Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood

I should have said you were, lugging that thing about with you.
Extract from : « The Girl on the Boat » by Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

She would need to be a lusty Amazon, Prather, if she took the contract of lugging me about.
Extract from : « The Brentons » by Anna Chapin Ray

It's the lugging the poor girl into his ma's sphere of influence.
Extract from : « Somehow Good » by William de Morgan

It was compensation enough, perhaps, for lugging this damned Jeffrey.
Extract from : « This Crowded Earth » by Robert Bloch

Just think what the boys will say when they see us lugging these horns into camp!
Extract from : « The Outdoor Chums in the Big Woods » by Quincy Allen

But while he is lugging water he wants to do it well and whistle at it!
Extract from : « Full-Back Foster » by Ralph Henry Barbour

He makes an occasion for lugging it in from the opposition to the Dred-Scott Decision.
Extract from : « The Life Of Abraham Lincoln » by Ward H. Lamon

She packed her things and went to the train, lugging her own baggage.
Extract from : « We Can't Have Everything » by Rupert Hughes

Lincoln had gripped Graham by the arm, was lugging him along the gallery.
Extract from : « When the Sleeper Wakes » by Herbert George Wells

Synonyms for lugging

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