tug : Idioms & Phrases


Steam tug

  • a steam vessel used in towing or propelling ships.
Webster 1913

Tug iron

  • an iron hook or button to which a tug or trace may be attached, as on the shaft of a wagon.
Webster 1913

tug-of-war

  • noun any hard struggle between equally matched groups
  • noun a contest in which teams pull of opposite ends of a rope; the team dragged across a central line loses
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