tug

• n. タグボート；曳航；力仕事
• vi. 懸命に引く；競争する；努力する
• vt. 懸命に引く；競う；タグボートで曳く

古英語のteohan「引っ張る」、原語ゲルマン語の*teuhan「引っ張る」、PIE *deuk「引っ張る」から。

tug

tug: [13] Tug goes back to a prehistoric Germanic base *teukh- ‘pull’ (source also of German ziehen ‘pull’ and English truck [14], whose original meaning was ‘pull up, gather up’). This in turn was descended from Indo-European *deuk- ‘pull’, from which English gets conduct, duke, reduce, etc.
=> conduct, duct, duke, educate, reduce, tie, tow

tug (v.)

c. 1200, from weak grade of Old English teohan "to pull, drag," from Proto-Germanic *teuhan "to pull" (cognates: Old High German zucchen "to pull, jerk," German zücken "to draw quickly), from PIE root *deuk- "to lead" (see duke (n.)). Related to tow (v.). Related: Tugged; tugging.

tug (n.)

mid-14c., in reference to some part of a harness;" c. 1500 as "act of pulling or dragging," from tug (v.). Meaning "small, powerful vessel for towing other vessels" is recorded from 1817. Phrase tug of war (1670s) was originally figurative, "the decisive contest, the real struggle," from the noun in the sense "supreme effort, strenuous contest of forces" (1650s). As an actual athletic event, from 1876.

1. She knows exactly how to tug at readers 'heartstrings.

彼女は読者の心の琴線をどのように動かすかをよく知っている。

2.The tug crossed our stern not fifty yards away.

タグボートは私たちの船尾をこすって50ヤードも離れていなかった。

3.Bobby gave her hair a tug .

ボビーは彼女の髪をぐっと引っ張った。

4.The sailors won at tug ?of?war.

船員たちが綱引きに勝った。

5.The tug is towing three barges.

そのタグボートは3隻のはしけを引いている。