What is another word for tugs?

Pronunciation: [tˈʌɡz] (IPA)

Tugs refer to the act of pulling something or exerting force to move it in a specific direction. Synonyms for tugs include pulls, yanks, tugs, drags, hauls, heaves, jerks, and wrenches. These words are used to describe the force and effort used to move an object or a person. Each synonym conveys a different level of force, intensity, or direction. For example, the word heave suggests a strong upward movement, while the word drag has a downward pull. It is essential to understand the context of the situation to determine which synonym is most appropriate to use.

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Usage examples for Tugs

About us on the waves danced a dozen tugs with reporters.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Helen and I stood on the top deck, where we could see the tugs turn the ship around.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford
Have every employe pulling on the same center tugs and have them all face forward, and your vehicle will move forward.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter

Famous quotes with Tugs

  • The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth".
    Dan Rather
  • I will not play tug o' war. I'd rather play hug o' war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.
    Shel Silverstein
  • When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
    John Muir
  • The great political tugs of the past 35 years have concerned the distribution of the golden eggs. In the 1980's and 1990's we must focus on the health of the goose.
    Paul Tsongas
  • Then, on the slight turn of the Lower Hope Reach, clusters of factory chimneys come distinctly into view, tall and slender above the squat ranges of cement works in Grays and Greenhithe. Smoking quietly at the top against the great blaze of a magnificent sunset, they give an industrial character to the scene, speak of work, manufactures, and trade, as palm-groves on the coral strands of distant islands speak of the luxuriant grace, beauty and vigour of tropical nature. The houses of Gravesend crowd upon the shore with an effect of confusion as if they had tumbled down haphazard from the top of the hill at the back. The flatness of the Kentish shore ends there. A fleet of steam-tugs lies at anchor in front of the various piers. A conspicuous church spire, the first seen distinctly coming from the sea, has a thoughtful grace, the serenity of a fine form above the chaotic disorder of men’s houses. But on the other side, on the flat Essex side, a shapeless and desolate red edifice, a vast pile of bricks with many windows and a slate roof more inaccessible than an Alpine slope, towers over the bend in monstrous ugliness, the tallest, heaviest building for miles around, a thing like an hotel, like a mansion of flats (all to let), exiled into these fields out of a street in West Kensington. Just round the corner, as it were, on a pier defined with stone blocks and wooden piles, a white mast, slender like a stalk of straw and crossed by a yard like a knitting-needle, flying the signals of flag and balloon, watches over a set of heavy dock-gates. Mast-heads and funnel-tops of ships peep above the ranges of corrugated iron roofs. This is the entrance to Tilbury Dock, the most recent of all London docks, the nearest to the sea.
    Joseph Conrad

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