lugger

Etymology 1

From lug + -er. Attested since the early 17th century.

noun

1. That which lugs in either literal or figurative senses.
   The horse was a lugger – lugging into the rail all the time. I had to fight hard to keep him running straight 2015, Garry Allison, Southern Hoofprints, page 450
2. One who lugs, especially one whose job entails pulling or moving heavy objects.
   Robert Taillon, a lugger at Rapid, testified that in December 1997, Carlos Diaz and Michel Labrosse began to train Rene Delage as a lugger for the large transformers. 1999, Ontario labor relations board, Labour Relations Board Reports, page 693
3. (slang, Australia, US) A conman.
4. A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
   An estimated 50 luggers were employed to bring gamblers to Reading. 2008, Ed Taggert, When the Rackets Reigned, page 187

Etymology 2

Likely from lugsail,, but compare also Middle Dutch luggen (“to fish with a dragnet”).

noun

1. A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails.
   pearling lugger
   A good many persons of the pension had gone over to the Cheniere Caminada in Beaudelet's lugger to hear mass. 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening

Etymology 3

Variant of laggar falcon, from Hindi लग्गर (laggar).

noun

1. An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.
   Falconry is a difficult art to master, some species more so than others. Sakers and Luggers are known to be problematic, and easy to lose, or to lose patience with. 2013, Conor Mark Jameson, Silent Spring Revisted, page 11