Word Meanings - TUG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

toggen; akin to OD. tocken to entice, G. zucken to jerk, draw, Icel. toga to draw, AS. téon, p. p. togen, to draw, G. ziehen, OHG. ziohan, Goth. tiuhan, L. ducere to lead, draw. Cf. Duke, Team, Tie, v. t., 1. To pull or draw with great effort;

Additional info about word: TUG

toggen; akin to OD. tocken to entice, G. zucken to jerk, draw, Icel. toga to draw, AS. téon, p. p. togen, to draw, G. ziehen, OHG. ziohan, Goth. tiuhan, L. ducere to lead, draw. Cf. Duke, Team, Tie, v. t., 1. To pull or draw with great effort; to draw along with continued exertion; to haul along; to tow; as, to tug a loaded cart; to tug a ship into port. There sweat, there strain, tug the laborious oar. Roscommon. 2. To pull; to pluck. To ease the pain, His tugged cars suffered with a strain. Hudibras.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TUG)

• Pull
• Draw
• drag
• adduce
• extract
• tug
• haul
• pluck

Related words: (words related to TUG)

• PLUCKER TUBE
  A vacuum tube, used in spectrum analysis, in which the part through which the discharge takes place is a capillary tube, thus producing intense incandescence of the contained gases. Crookes tube.
• EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
  Capable of being extracted.
• ADDUCE
  To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
• PLUCKED
  Having courage and spirit.
• PLUCK
  To reject at an examination for degrees. C. Bronté. To pluck away, to pull away, or to separate by pulling; to tear away. -- To pluck down, to pull down; to demolish; to reduce to a lower state. -- to pluck off, to pull or tear off; as, to pluck
• EXTRACT
  1. To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger. The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid
• PLUCKINESS
  The quality or state of being plucky.
• PLUCKY
  Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race. If you're plucky, and not over subject to fright. Barham.
• EXTRACTIVE
  1. Capable of being extracted. "Thirty grains of extractive matter." Kirwan. 2. Tending or serving to extract or draw out. Certain branches of industry are conveniently designated extractive: e.g., agriculture, pastoral and mining pursuits, cutting
• EXTRACTIFORM
  Having the form, appearance, or nature, of an extract.
• PLUCKLESS
  Without pluck; timid; faint-hearted.
• ADDUCER
  One who adduces.
• ADDUCENT
  Bringing together or towards a given point; -- a word applied to those muscles of the body which pull one part towards another. Opposed to abducent.
• PLUCKILY
  In a plucky manner.
• PLUCKER
  1. One who, or that which, plucks. Thou setter up and plucker down of kings. Shak. 2. A machine for straightening and cleaning wool.
• EXTRACTION
  1. The act of extracting, or drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book, of an essence or tincture. 2. Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth;
• EXTRACTOR
  One who, or that which, extracts; as: A forceps or instrument for extracting substances. A device for withdrawing a cartridge or spent cartridge shell from the chamber of the barrel.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• GOULARDS EXTRACT
  An aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract.
• SADDUCEE
  One of a sect among the ancient Jews, who denied the resurrection, a future state, and the existence of angels. -- Sad`du*ce"an, a.
• UPPLUCK
  To pull or pluck up.
• HYDRO-EXTRACTOR
  An apparatus for drying anything, as yarn, cloth, sugar, etc., by centrifugal force; a centrifugal.