lug

lug is a 3-letter English word with 17 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The ear, or its lobe. Face value is 4 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 4 · Words With Friends 7 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The ear, or its lobe.
2. noun. 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; as, the lugs of a kettle; the lugs of a founder's flask; the lug (handle) of a jug.
3. noun. 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. noun. The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
5. noun. The lugworm.
6. intransitive verb. To pull with force; to haul; to drag along; to carry with difficulty, as something heavy or cumbersome.
7. intransitive verb. To move slowly and heavily.
8. noun. The act of lugging; as, a hard lug; that which is lugged; as, the pack is a heavy lug.
9. noun. Anything which moves slowly.
10. noun. A rod or pole.
11. noun. A measure of length, being 16/ feet; a rod, pole, or perch.
12. noun. marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait

    Synonyms: lobworm, lugworm

13. noun. a projecting piece that is used to lift or support or turn something
14. noun. a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast

    Synonyms: lugsail

15. noun. ancient Celtic god

    Synonyms: lugh

16. verb. carry with difficulty

    "You'll have to lug this suitcase"

    Synonyms: tote, tug

17. verb. obstruct

    "My nose is all stuffed"

    "Her arteries are blocked"

    Synonyms: block, stuff

Synonyms

lobworm, lugworm, lugsail, lugh, tote, tug, block, stuff

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lug:

gul

Common word forms

lugs, luged, luger, luges, lugged, lugger, luging, lugging

Words from these letters

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