luggered

Verb (1)

lugger (third-person singular simple present luggers, present participle luggering, simple past and past participle luggered)

1. (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

   Synonyms:

   lug

2. (figuratively, obsolete, transitive) To tease (someone).
3. (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

Verb (2)

lugger (third-person singular simple present luggers, present participle luggering, simple past and past participle luggered)

1. (intransitive) To 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...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

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