lugger

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English

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From lug +‎ -er. Attested since the early 17th century.[1]

Noun

lugger (plural luggers)

  1. That which lugs in either literal or figurative senses.
    • 2015, Garry Allison, Southern Hoofprints, 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. [2]
  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,[3] but compare also Middle Dutch luggen (to fish with a dragnet).[4]

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

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, 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.

References

  1. ^ lugger, n.1, in Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.
  2. ^ lugger n.3”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang, Jonathon Green, 2016–present
  3. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “lugger”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  4. ^ lugger, n.2, in Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

Anagrams

Danish

Noun

lugger c (singular definite luggeren, plural indefinite luggere)

A schematic lugger
  1. lugger

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English lugger.

Noun

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

  1. (nautical) a lugger

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English lugger.

Noun

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

  1. (nautical) a lugger

References