To pull or draw with great effort; to drag along with continued exertion; to haul along. There sweat, there strain, tug the laborious oar.

To pull; to pluck. --To ease the pain . His tugg’d ears suffer’d with a strain.

To pull with great effort; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream.

To labor; to strive; to struggle. They long wrestled and strenuously tugged for their liberty.

A pull with the utmost effort. At the tug he falls-- . Vast ruins come along-- .

A sort of carriage, used in some parts of England for conveying bavins or faggots and other things.

In some parts of New England, the traces of a harness are called tugs.