Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
The ear, or its lobe.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
- 5noun
The lugworm.
- 6intransitive verb
To pull with force; to haul; to drag along; to carry with difficulty, as something heavy or cumbersome.
- 7intransitive verb
To move slowly and heavily.
- 8noun
The act of lugging; as, a hard lug; that which is lugged; as, the pack is a heavy lug.
- 9noun
Anything which moves slowly.
- 10noun
A rod or pole.
- 11noun
A measure of length, being 16/ feet; a rod, pole, or perch.
- 12noun
marine worms having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back; often used for fishing bait
- 13noun
a projecting piece that is used to lift or support or turn something
- 14noun
a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast
Synonyms
- 15noun
ancient Celtic god
- 16verb
carry with difficulty
"You'll have to lug this suitcase"
- 17verb
obstruct
"My nose is all stuffed"
"Her arteries are blocked"
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