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Synonyms for lugging


Grammar : Verb
Spell : luhg
Phonetic Transcription : lʌg

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Définition 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

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