different between tug vs trug

English

Etymology

From Middle English tuggen, toggen, from Old English togian (“to draw, drag”), from Proto-Germanic *tug?n? (“to draw, tear”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull”). Cognate with Middle Low German togen (“to draw”), Middle High German zogen (“to pull, tear off”), Icelandic toga (“to pull, draw”). Related to tee, tow.

Pronunciation

• enPR: t?g, IPA^(key): /t??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

tug (third-person singular simple present tugs, present participle tugging, simple past and past participle tugged)

1. (transitive) to pull or drag with great effort

   The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.

2. (transitive) to pull hard repeatedly

   He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.

3. (transitive) to tow by tugboat

Derived terms

• tug down
• tug up

Translations

Noun

tug (plural tugs)

1. A sudden powerful pull.

   • At the tug he falls, / Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.
2. (nautical) A tugboat.
3. (obsolete) A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.

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4. A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
5. (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
6. (slang) An act of masturbation.

   He had a quick tug to calm himself down before his date.

Derived terms

• tug of war

Translations

Anagrams

• GUT, UTG, gut

Elfdalian

Noun

tug n

1. train

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Icelandic

Noun

tug

1. inflection of tugur:
   1. indefinite accusative singular
   2. indefinite dative singular

Scottish Gaelic

Verb

tug

1. past tense of thoir

Usage notes

• This is the dependent form, the basic form being thug.

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