Etymology tree
English lug
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English lugger
From lug (verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns, and frequentative verbs).
Meanings
(also, figuratively) Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”).
Tireur: […] A dravver, puller, plucker, baler, lugger, tugger, tovver; […] 1611, Randle Cotgrave, compiler, “Tireur”, in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, signature Hhhh ij, verso, column 2:
The horse [a racehorse] was a lugger – lugging into the rail all the time. I had to fight hard to keep him running straight and we won – but the stewards said I interfered with another horse and I was moved to second. 2015, Garry Allison, Southern Hoofprints, Victoria, B.C.: FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 450:
(also, figuratively) Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”). ▸ A person whose job involves moving or pulling heavy objects.
Robert Taillon, a lugger at Rapid, testified that in December 1997, Carlos Diaz and Michel Labrosse began to train Rene Delage as a lugger for the large transformers. 1999, Ontario Labour Relations Board Reports, Toronto, Ont.: Ontario Labour Relations Board, →OCLC, paragraph 86, page 693:
Micheal Kelleher was employed by the Swift Co., on Sept. 10, 1914, as a meat lugger. While engaged in carrying meat to the storage plant elevator a tag fastener was tossed toward him by a fellow employe. It struck him over the right eye. He lost the sight of the eye. 1915 July 16, “New York State Compensation Rulings”, in The Eastern Underwriter, number 29, New York, N.Y.: The Eastern Underwriter Company, →OCLC, page 22, column 3:
(also, figuratively) Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”). ▸ A person hired to locate potential customers and bring them to a gambling establishment.
The feds also figured that the casino's annual payroll was $350,000. An estimated 50 luggers were employed to bring gamblers to Reading. 2008, Ed Taggert, “High Rollers Crapped out by Feds”, in When the Rackets Reigned, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 187:
(also, derogatory, figuratively, slang) Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”). ▸ A rower who tends to rely on strength rather than technique.
The Canadian [Ned] Hanlan represents what since the introduction of the slide may be called the scientific side of sculling; his Australian competitor [Elias Connell Laycock], though by no means such a mere "lugger" as his countryman [Edward] Trickett, trusts much less to style and mechanical finish. 1881 February 14, “[Professional sculling race on the Thames]”, in The Daily News, number 10,862, London: William King Hales, →OCLC, page 5, column 5:
(Australia, US, also, figuratively, slang) Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”). ▸ A con artist.
fi sisäänheittäjä (person hired to locate potential customers and bring them to a gambling establishment) · fi voimasoutaja (rower who tends to rely on strength rather than technique) · fi raahaaja (someone or something that lugs; person whose job involves moving or pulling heavy objects)
Etymology tree
English lug
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English lugger
From lug (verb) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns, and frequentative verbs).
Meanings
(transitive) Synonym of lug (“to drag or haul (someone or something, especially when heavy); to carry, to pull”).
But once as I vvent luggering home my load, / I ſavv tvvo Maſtives [mastiffs] fighting in the Road; […] 1665, Aesop, “Fab[le] XLIV. 2. Of the Same Dog and Wolf.”, in James Ogilby, transl., The Fables of Æsop Paraphras’d in Verse: […], London: […] Thomas Roycroft, for the author, →OCLC, page 114:
Mace and Svvord-bearers go before a King. / Methinks vvhen e're I ſee Authority, / Lugger a heavy Fool upon her Sholders / Before me, I have State beſtovved upon me, / And have a leaden Mace carried before me. 1679, John Crowne, The Ambitious Statesman, or The Loyal Favourite. […], London: […] William Abington, […], →OCLC, Act III, scene i, page 32:
When the last trunk was luggered ashore and the last passenger on the dock, a big broad-shouldered man as quiet as the ship got down from the freight-shed doorway where for half an hour he had been watching the tugs warp the "Royal Edward" in. 1910 November, Augustus Bridle, “The Man who Does a Day’s Work”, in Herbert Vanderhoof, editor, Canada Monthly, volume IV, number 11, London, Ont.; Winnipeg, Man.: Vanderhoof-Gunn Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 1:
Bill Bowman looked across the vale to the Cotswold edge and thought of the bare-fisted fights he had had Club days in Crow Knell, reliving the sack-carrying as he luggered the two-hundredweight-and-a-quarter bags of wheat up the granary steps at Abel's farm during the Crimean War, […] 1971, Fred Archer, “April”, in The Secrets of Bredon Hill: A Country Chronicle of the Year 1900, London: Coronet Books, published 1973, →ISBN, page 70:
(figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To tease (someone).
(intransitive) To move heavily while, or as if, laden with goods; to lumber.
Up into that jumble of shacks with the trail snaking amidst came the ox-cart caravans of the priests, luggering along with goods for the mission at the Cathedral of St. Albert on the Sturgeon. 1909 September 25, “Trail that grew. Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, is a wonderful thoroughfare”, in The Chronicle, volume II, number 40, Crossfield, Alta.: [Thomas W. Pue], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 7, column 4:
I take my gin outside, sit in the sun filtering through the vines into the courtyard outside my kitchen door, and listen to […] the cars luggering down the road, looking for somewhere to park to disgorge their occupants who tomorrow will be at school or university or work but today are heading for the cool and salt of the sea. 2013, Tracy Farr, “Piss-take”, in The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt […], Fremantle, W.A.: Fremantle Press, →ISBN, page 19:
Etymology tree
English lug(sail)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
?
English lugger
The noun is possibly from lug(sail) (“quadrilateral sail bent upon a yard that crosses the mast obliquely”) + -er (suffix forming nouns relating to the root words such as by location or purpose), but compare Dutch logger (“small sailing vessel, lugger”), possibly from Middle Dutch loggen, luggen (“to fish with a dragnet”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Meanings
A small sailing vessel having two or three masts and a running bowsprit, carrying lugsails.
A good many persons of the pension had gone over to the Chênière Caminada in Beaudelet's lugger to hear mass. 1899 April 22, Kate Chopin, chapter I, in The Awakening, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Herbert S. Stone & Co., →OCLC, page 2:
[A]ll veſſels belonging in the vvhole, or in part, to any of his Majeſty's ſubjects, called Cutters, Luggers, Shallops, or VVherries, (of vvhat built ſoever), […] and all ſhips or veſſels belonging as aforeſaid, armed for reſiſtance, […] ſhall be forfeited, together vvith all the goods, if any, vvhich ſhall be laden thereon, and all her guns, tackle and furniture. 1784, “Cap[itulum] XLVII. An Act for the More Effectual Provision of Smuggling in this Kingdom.”, in Danby Pickering, editor, The Statutes at Large, from Magna Charta to the End of the Eleventh Parliament of Great Britain, Anno 1761. Continued, volume XXXIV, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] John Archdeacon, printer to the University [of Cambridge]; [f]or Charles Bathurst, […], published 1782, →OCLC, section IV, pages 661–662:
A fast-sailing lugger will soon bring you there though, snug stowed under hatches, like a cask of moonlight. 1824 June, [Walter Scott], “Narrative of Darsie Latimer, Continued”, in Redgauntlet, […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 163:
And let the Mermaid—Flora—Weasel—Bruiser, and all the sloops, lie well off, until we have landed the soldiers; the pilot says the channel is full of luggers, […] 1820, [James Fenimore Cooper], chapter XVI, in Precaution, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: A. T. Goodrich & Co. […], →OCLC, page 219:
pearling lugger
In another minute a large lugger-built boat, evidently intended for sailing as well as pulling, was seen through the fog looming still larger from the mist, pulling into the cove. 1837, [Frederick Marryat], “In which the Crew of the Yungfrau Lose a Good Prize, and Snarleyyow Loses His Character”, in Snarleyyow, or The Dog Fiend. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 206:
Etymology tree
English lug(sail)
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzios
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
?
English lugger
The noun is possibly from lug(sail) (“quadrilateral sail bent upon a yard that crosses the mast obliquely”) + -er (suffix forming nouns relating to the root words such as by location or purpose), but compare Dutch logger (“small sailing vessel, lugger”), possibly from Middle Dutch loggen, luggen (“to fish with a dragnet”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
Meanings
(intransitive) To sail a lugger (etymology 2, noun sense 1).
[M]any Europeans and other aliens […] sought their fortunes on land by fossicking for gold and other precious minerals, and on sea along the coastline by luggering for pearl shell, trochus shell and the sea slug trepang or bêche de mer. 1989, A. K. Chase, “Perceptions of the Past among North Queensland Aboriginal People: The Intrusion of Europeans and Consequent Social Change”, in Robert [Hugh] Layton, editor, Who Needs the Past? Indigenous Values and Archaeology (One World Archaeology), London; Winchester, Mass.: Unwin Hyman, →ISBN, page 169:
[H]e has luggered all through Indonesia, from New Guinea to Singapore, and fluently speaks Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and a dozen dialects of Malay. Happening to be in Darwin with his lugger when the war started, he promptly enlisted in the hope of seeing overseas service; but a tropic linguist is too valuable for Darwin's defence, so there he has to stay. 1941, Frank Clune, “Port Darwin”, in All Aboard for Singapore: A Trip by Qantas Flying Boat from Sydney to Malaya, Sydney, N.S.W.; London: Angus and Robertson, →OCLC, page 114:
(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of laggar (“the jugger (Falco jugger), a mid-sized falcon native to the Indian subcontinent, Afghanistan, Iran, and Myanmar”).
Falconry is a difficult art to master, some species more so than others. Sakers and Luggers are known to be problematic, and easy to lose, or to lose patience with. 2013, Conor Mark Jameson, “Prologue”, in Silent Spring Revisted, London: Bloomsbury Wildlife, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 11: