luggernoun詞源 1/ˈlʌɡə/

• 1

  Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”).

  • Tireur: […] A dravver, puller, plucker, baler, lugger, tugger, tovver; […]
  • 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.
• 2

  Someone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”).

  • 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.
  • 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.
• 3

  gamblinggamesSomeone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”).

  • The feds also figured that the casino's annual payroll was $350,000. An estimated 50 luggers were employed to bring gamblers to Reading.
• 4

  derogatoryslanghobbieslifestylerowingSomeone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”).

  • 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.
• 5

  slangSomeone or something that lugs (“drags or hauls, especially something heavy”).

luggerverb詞源 1/ˈlʌɡə/

• 1

  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; […]
  • 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.
• 2

  obsoleteTo tease (someone).

• 3

  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.
  • 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.

luggernoun詞源 2/ˈlʌɡə/

• 1

  nauticaltransportA small sailing vessel having two or three masts and a running bowsprit, carrying lugsails.

  • pearling lugger
  • [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.

luggerverb詞源 2/ˈlʌɡə/

• 1

  nauticaltransportTo sail a lugger (etymology 2, noun sense 1).

  • [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.
  • [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.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• laggar