Definitions
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- noun (Naut.) A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.
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- noun A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.
Etymologies
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From Russian струг (strug), an old Russian wooden river boat.
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It is then necessary to accustom the mind to labour, to inure it to exercise, to render it apt, by habit and practice, to make those efforts of attention, which elevate those, who are capable of them, to ideas the most sublime, and to mysteries the most ab - struse.
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