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Tug vs Rug - What's the difference?

tug | rug |

As nouns the difference between tug and rug

is that tug is a sudden powerful pull while rug is horn.

As a verb tug

is to pull or drag with great effort.

tug

English

Verb

(tugg)
  • to pull or drag with great effort
    • The police officers tugged the drunkard out of the pub.
  • to pull hard repeatedly
    • He lost his patience trying to undo his shoe-lace, but tugging it made the knot even tighter.
  • to tow by tugboat

    • Derived terms

    * tug down * tug up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a sudden powerful pull
  • * Dryden
    • At the tug he falls, / Vast ruins come along, rent from the smoking walls.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=September 24 , author=David Ornstein , title=Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=But Van Persie slotted home 40 seconds after the break before David Wheater saw red for a tug on Theo Walcott.}}
  • (nautical) a tugboat
  • (obsolete) A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles.
    • (Halliwell)
  • A trace, or drawing strap, of a harness.
  • (mining) An iron hook of a hoisting tub, to which a tackle is affixed.
  • (slang) An act of masturbation
    • He had a quick tug to calm himself down before his date.

    Derived terms

    * tug of war

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    rug

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A partial covering for a floor.
  • (UK, Australia) A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket.
  • * 1855 , , A Boy?s Adventures in the Wilds of Australia: or, Herbert?s Note-Book , page 254,
    • They then cut down a quantity of gum-tree leaves for a bed, and threw their rugs upon them ready for bed-time.
  • * 1906 July 27, Government Gazette of Western Australia , page 2297,
    • Furnish every sleeping apartment with a sufficient number of toilet utensils and bedsteads, and sufficient bedding so that each bed shall be provided with a mattress, two sheets, a rug', and, in winter time, not less than one additional ' rug .
  • * 1950 April, Dental Journal of Australia , Volume 22, page 181,
    • My own son had a bunny rug' of which he was very fond and on being put to bed he would always demand his “bunny ' rug to suck his finger with.?
  • * 1997 , Alan Sharpe, Vivien Encel, Murder!: 25 True Australian Crimes , page 22,
    • He brought with him a rug and a sheet, and lay down by the fire.
  • A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing.
  • * Holinshed
    • They spin the choicest rug' in Ireland. A friend of mine repaired to Paris Garden clad in one of these Waterford ' rugs .
  • A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog.
  • (slang) A wig; a hairpiece.

    • Usage notes

    * (partial floor covering) The terms rug'' and carpet are not precise synonyms: a ''rug'' covers part of the floor; a ''carpet'' covers most or a large area of the floor; a ''fitted carpet runs wall-to-wall.

    Synonyms

    * (small carpet) carpet, mat * (wig) toupee, wig

    Derived terms

    * area rug * cut a rug * scatter rug * snug as a bug in a rug

    Verb

    (rugg)
  • (Scotland) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder; to spoil; to tear.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)

    Derived terms

    * rug up (Webster 1913)

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