meaning of lug
1. The ear, or its lobe.
2. 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 founders flask; the lug (handle) of a jug.
3. 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. The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.
5. The lugworm.
6. To pull with force; to haul; to drag along; to carry with difficulty, as something heavy or cumbersome.
7. To move slowly and heavily.
8. The act of lugging; as, a hard lug; that which is lugged; as, the pack is a heavy lug.
9. Anything which moves slowly.
10. A rod or pole.
11. A measure of length, being 16/ feet; a rod, pole, or perch.
12. LUG Linux User Group luminance brightness lump uncurrying Chins generalisation of uncurrying. A curried function taking several tuples as arguments can be transformed to take a single tuple containing all the components of the original tuples. LUN Logical Unit Number lunatic fringe [IBM] Customers who can be relied upon to accept release 1 versions of software. [Jargon File] Lund Simula
Related Words
lug | luggage | lugged | lugger | lugging | lugmark | lugsail | lugubrious | lugworm |
