lug

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A handle or projection used as a hold or support.
2. n. A lug nut.
3. n. Nautical A lugsail.
4. n. A projecting part of a larger piece that helps to provide traction, as on a tire or the sole of a boot.
5. n. A copper or brass fitting to which electrical wires can be soldered or otherwise connected.
6. n. Slang A clumsy fool; a blockhead.
7. v. To drag or haul (an object) laboriously.
8. v. To pull or drag with short jerks.
9. v. To cause (an engine, for example) to run poorly or hesitate: If you drive too slowly in third gear, you'll lug the engine.
10. v. To pull something with difficulty; tug.
11. v. To move along by jerks or as if under a heavy burden.
12. v. To run poorly or hesitate because of strain. Used of an engine: The motor lugs on hills.
13. n. Archaic The act of lugging.
14. n. Archaic Something lugged.
15. n. A box for shipping fruit or vegetables.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To pull with force or effort, as something that is heavy or resists; haul; drag.
2. To carry, as something heavy or burdensome; bear laboriously.
3. Especially To drag or pull about by the ears or head, as a bear or a bull, to excite it to action; bait; worry.
4. To geld.
5. To pull with effort: followed by at.
6. To move heavily, or with resistance; drag.
7. n. Anything that moves slowly or with difficulty; something of a heavy, lumpish, or sluggish nature. Specifically— A slug; a sluggard.
8. n. Same as lug-sail.
9. n. plural Affected manners; “airs”: as, to put on lugs.
10. n. The lobe of the ear.
11. n. The ear.
12. n. A projecting part of some object resembling more or less in form or position the human ear. A projecting piece or ear on a vessel or other object to serve as a handle, or on a tile or the like to afford it a hold when used in roofing.
13. n. In machinery, a projecting piece; specifically, a short flange by or to which something is fastened.
14. n. A projecting piece upon a founders' flask or mold.
15. n. 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.
16. n. The arm of a bee-frame.
17. n. A jamb or side wall of a recess, as a fireplace.
18. n. A grade of tobacco.
19. 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).
20. n. A rod or pole.
21. n. A pliable rod or twig such as is used in thatching.
22. n. 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.

Wiktionary

1. n. A lug nut.
2. n. 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.
3. n. A part of something which sticks out, used as a handle or support.
4. n. A fool, a large man.
5. n. UK An ear or ear lobe.
6. n. A wood box used for transporting fruit or vegetables.
7. n. slang A request for money, as for political purposes.
8. n. UK, dialect A rod or pole.
9. n. UK, dialect A measure of length equal to 16½ feet.
10. v. transitive To haul, carry (especially something heavy).
11. v. transitive To run at too slow a speed.
12. v. transitive, nautical To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Scot. & Prov. Eng. The ear, or its lobe.
2. n. 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
3. n. (Mach.) 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.
4. n. (Harness) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
5. n. (Zoöl.) The lugworm.
6. n. slang A man; sometimes implying clumsiness.
7. v. To pull with force; to haul; to drag along; to carry with difficulty, as something heavy or cumbersome.
8. v. To move slowly and heavily.
9. n. colloq. The act of lugging; ; that which is lugged.
10. n. obsolete Anything which moves slowly.
11. n. Prov. Eng. A rod or pole.
12. n. obsolete A measure of length, being 161/2 feet; a rod, pole, or perch.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. obstruct.
2. n. a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast
3. n. a projecting piece that is used to lift or support or turn something
4. n. marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait
5. v. carry with difficulty
6. n. ancient Celtic god