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Lug sb.4. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1903, rev. 2024. Lug sb.4 Also 7 lugg, 7, 9 log. [Cf. prec.; also LURG.] A large marine worm (Arenicola marina) which burrows in the sands of our coasts and is much used for bait. Also Comb., as lug-worm; lug-fork (see quot. 1883).

1 1602.  Carew, Cornwall, 34 b. The Lugg is a worme resembling the Tag-worme or Angle-touch, and lying in the ose somewhat deepe, from whence the women digge them vp, and sell them to the Fishermen.

2 1793.  Statist. Acc. Scot., V. 277. All the above [fish] … are taken with lines baited with mussels and lug.

3 1802.  Bingley, Anim. Biog. (1813), III. 409. Lug-worms are marine animals.

4 1859.  J. C. Atkinson, Walks & Talks (1892), 315. A sufficient supply of ‘log,’ or the worms found in the sea-sand.

5 1883.  Fisheries Exhib. Catal., 13. Lug Fork … used … for digging large Lugworms.

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