TUG
NOUNS
► CHUG a sudden pull; a tug → 1908 Sc. (Bk.)
► REEF a vigorous tug → 1958 Amer. dial.
► RICK a tug or pull; a sharp movement → 1892 Sc.
► TIT a sharp and sudden pull; a tug, a jerk, a twitch → 1340 chiefly Sc.
► TWIG a pull; a twitch; a tug; a draught → 1800 Eng. dial.
► TWITCH a sudden sharp pull or tug; a jerk, a pluck, a snatch → 1523
► YANK a tug, a pull, a wrench → E19 sl.
VERBS
► BETEE to pull or tug at → c1205 obs.
► HARL to drag: usually with the notion of friction or scraping of the ground; to pull, to tug; to trail along the ground; to haul → c1290 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► PIGGLE to pull or tug nervously → 1936 Amer. dial.
► PUG to pull, to tug → L16 now Sc. & Eng. dial.
► REEF to pull or push something vigorously; to tug, to use force on something → 1958 Amer. dial.
► TIRE to pull, to tug, to draw → a1300 arch.
► TIT to pull forcibly, to tug; to snatch → a1300 chiefly Sc.
► TOGGLE to tug, to tussle → a1225 obs.
► TOIL to pull, to drag, to tug about → c1325 obs.
► TWICK to pull something sharply or suddenly; to tug; to pluck → a1000 chiefly Eng. dial.
► TWITCH to pull or jerk something sharply or forcibly; to give a sudden sharp pull or tug at something → c1300
► YANK to tug something with sudden energy; to remove something; to drag, to pull → 1848 sl., orig. US
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