LekhoriLekhoriTo pull or drag with great effort.
The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.
To pull hard repeatedly.
He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.
To tow by tugboat.
A sudden powerful pull.
At the tug he falls, / Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.
A tugboat.
From Middle English tuggen, toggen, from Old English togian (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-West Germanic *togōn, from Proto-Germanic *tugōną (“to draw, tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull...
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Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.
A foundationer or colleger at Eton.