lugger

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ʌɡə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From lug +‎ -er. Attested since the early 17th century.

Noun

lugger (plural luggers)

1. That which lugs in either literal or figurative senses.
   • 2015, Garry Allison, Southern Hoofprints‎^[1], page 450:

     The horse was a lugger – lugging into the rail all the time. I had to fight hard to keep him running straight

2. One who lugs, especially one whose job entails pulling or moving heavy objects.
   • 1999, Ontario labor relations board, Labour Relations Board Reports, page 693:

     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. (slang, Australia, US) A conman. [from 20th century]
4. A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.

   Synonyms: picker-up, roper, runner, steerer

   • 2008, Ed Taggert, When the Rackets Reigned, page 187:

     An estimated 50 luggers were employed to bring gamblers to Reading.

Etymology 2

Likely from lugsail, but compare also Middle Dutch luggen (“to fish with a dragnet”).

Noun

lugger (plural luggers)

1. A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails.

   pearling lugger

   • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening:

     A good many persons of the pension had gone over to the Cheniere Caminada in Beaudelet's lugger to hear mass.

Translations

sailing vessel

• Dutch: logger (nl) m
• French: lougre (fr) m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: lugger m

  Nynorsk: lugger m

• Spanish: lugre

Etymology 3

Variant of laggar falcon, from Hindi लग्गर (laggar).

Noun

lugger (plural luggers)

1. An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.
   • 2013, Conor Mark Jameson, Silent Spring Revisted‎^[2], page 11:

     Falconry is a difficult art to master, some species more so than others. Sakers and Luggers are known to be problematic, and easy to lose, or to lose patience with.

Anagrams

• glurge, gurgle

Danish

Noun

lugger c (singular definite luggeren, plural indefinite luggere)

A schematic lugger

1. lugger

References

• “lugger” in Den Danske Ordbog

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English lugger.

Noun

lugger m (definite singular luggeren, indefinite plural luggere, definite plural luggerne)

1. (nautical) a lugger

References

• “lugger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “lugger” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English lugger.

Noun

lugger m (definite singular luggeren, indefinite plural luggerar, definite plural luggerane)

1. (nautical) a lugger

References

• “lugger” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.