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In some senses, lugger is marked as slang, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
That which lugs in either literal or figurative senses.
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.
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.
A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
An estimated 50 luggers were employed to bring gamblers to Reading.
noun
A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails.
pearling lugger
A fast-sailing lugger will soon bring you there though, snug stowed under hatches, like a cask of moonlight.
noun
An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.
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.