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  1. transitive verb To pull at vigorously or repeatedly.
  2. transitive verb To move by pulling with great effort or exertion; drag.
  3. transitive verb To tow by tugboat.
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  • Coast guardsmen will go out in anything The cutter skipper nosed in close, saw that the tug was the Whale of Gotham, and that there was a picture of a spouting whale painted on the bows. —  023 - The Mystic Mullah
  • By the time they had fire hoses and axes aboard, the tug was a sheet of flame. —  TheMagazineofFantasyandScienceFiction,December2004
  • The little contretemps at Rotherhithe when he tried to board a tug was a sufficiently unpleasant experience for one day. —  Men of Affairs
  • He knew the rope for the tug was laid I'll begin at the right start," he said. —  The Heart of Unaga
  • With his eyes snapping with gratification, Frobisher locked away the case in a drawer, and went out on deck to find Drake As he emerged from the companion-way, he saw that the tug was already alongside; and he immediately ran up on to the bridge, so as to be ready to carry out any orders that Drake might have for him. —  A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas
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pull ·  jerk ·  twinge ·  shove ·  twitch ·  push ·  jolt ·  shake ·  knock ·  surge ·  kick ·  lurch

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tug:   tugged ·  tugging
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English tuggen, from Old English tēon; see deuk- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English tuggen, toggen, togen, a secondary form of tukken,- pull: see tuck, tow, tee.
  2. from tug, v.; in part ult. a variant of tow, a rope, etc., and connected with tie, a band, rope, etc.; all from the ult. verb represented by tee.
 

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