different between trugg vs trug

English

Noun

trugg (plural truggs or trugg)

1. An old English measure of corn, perhaps equal to 1/12 of a quarter.
   • 1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 1, p. 168

     The sum on one estate in the year 1371 is divided into 12 trugg; the double sum of 24 trugg being employed for measuring oats.

English

Etymology

Compare trough.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???/
• Rhymes: -??

Noun

trug (plural trugs)

1. (chiefly Britain) A shallow, oval basket used for gardening
2. (obsolete) A trough or tray.
3. (obsolete) A hod for mortar.
4. (obsolete) An old measure of wheat equal to two thirds of a bushel.

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5. (obsolete) A concubine; a harlot.
   • 1630, John Taylor, "The World Runs on Wheels", in All the Workes of John Taylor the Water Poet

     the Tobacco seller, with their companion Trugs, must be coached to […] many other places, like wild haggards prancing up and down

Translations

Anagrams

• GURT, gurt, turg

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse trog.

Noun

trug n (singular definite truget, plural indefinite trug)

1. trough

Inflection

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tru?k/, [t?u?k] (standard)
  • Rhymes: -u?k
• IPA^(key): /tru?x/ (northern and central Germany; now chiefly colloquial)
• Homophone: Trug (but /x/ is less common in this, so some speakers may distinguish)

Verb

trug

1. first/third-person singular past indicative of tragen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

trug m (definite singular trugen, indefinite plural trugar, definite plural trugane)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by truge f