lugger

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Composed in English of lug +‎ -er. Attested since the early 17th century.^[1]

lugger (plural luggers)

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
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.
A conman.

Likely from lugsail,^[2], but compare also Middle Dutch luggen (“to fish with a dragnet”).^[3]

lugger (plural luggers)

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

lugger (plural luggers)

An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.

^ lugger, n.1, in Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “lugger”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
^ lugger, n.2, in Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

lugger c (singular definite luggeren, plural indefinite luggere)

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