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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Tug  \Tug\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Tugged};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Tugging}.]  [OE.  toggen;  akin  to  OD  tocken  to  entice,  G. 
  zucken  to  jerk,  draw,  Icel.  toga  to  draw,  AS  t['e]on,  p.  p. 
  togen,  to  draw,  G.  ziehen  OHG.  ziohan  Goth.  tiuhan  L. 
  ducere  to  lead,  draw.  Cf  {Duke},  {Team},  {Tie},  v.  t., 
  {Touch},  {Tow},  v.  t.,  {Tuck}  to  press  in  {Toy}  a 
  plaything.] 
  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.  [Obs.] 
 
  To  ease  the  pain,  His  tugged  cars  suffered  with  a 
  strain.  --Hudibras. 




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