Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Chiefly British A shallow, usually oval gardening basket made with wide strips of wood.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A hod for mortar.
- n. A measure of wheat, as much as was carried in a trough, three trugs making two bushels.
- n. A kind of wooden basket for carrying vegetables, etc.
- n. A trollop; a trull.
Wiktionary
- n. A shallow, oval basket used for gardening
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A trough, or tray.
- n. A hod for mortar.
- n. An old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel.
- n. A concubine; a harlot.
Etymologies
- Middle English, a shallow wooden tray, measure of corn, perhaps from Old Norse trog, trough; see deru- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Drug dealers always believed, Border Guards of the USA got the nick not the trug runners. on June 10, 2009 at 9: 23 am picnic”
“The little bench, trug and watering can fit into my sneakers, safe and sound in the checked bag.”
“Mr. BLECKMANN: "Als ich dich in meinem Lieb trug.”
“GROSS: So this is Theo Bleckmann from his latest CD, "Berlin: Songs of Love and War, Peace and Exile" (Soundbite of song, "Als ich dich in meinem Lieb trug") Mr. BLECKMANN: (Singing in German) GROSS: That's singer Theo Bleckmann, from his CD "Berlin," and the song we just heard was written by Hanns Eisler and Bertolt Brecht.”
“And I'll ask you to pronounce it, but it's "Als ich in meinem Lieb trug.”
“She went home happy (I hope) with a trug or two of manure for a trial bed to see if she agrees with us (and Steiner and Jane Scotter) that cow manure adds another quality to vegetable growing.”
“Judith, George's wife, joined them, looking into the trug at the roses.”
“With two spindle dowels, a vintage feed sack, and a little webbing Ki created this easy, graphic flower trug for carrying cut flowers from the garden.”
“Spring is here and Ki is sharing a flower trug tutorial made from a vintage feedsack.”
“See the full flower trug tutorial for detailed instructions and step by step pictures.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘trug’.
bilby "A dirty puzzle, an ordinary sorry woman."
- Francis Grose, 'The Vulgar Tongue'. Sep 9, 2008