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Webster 1828 Edition

Tugging

TUG'GING

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ppr.

Pulling or dragging with great exertion; hauling.

Definition 2024

tugging

tugging

English

Verb

tugging

present participle of tug

Noun

tugging ‎(plural tuggings)

The action of something that tugs; a pull.
- 1951, Raymond F. Jones, Renaissance
  Yet there began to be insistent tuggings as if from a dream that could not be recalled.