Definition of "lugger"

lugger¹

noun
plural luggers
1. That which lugs in either literal or figurative senses.
  Quotations
  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.
  Quotations
  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.
  Quotations
  An estimated 50 luggers were employed to bring gamblers to Reading.
  2008, Ed Taggert, When the Rackets Reigned, page 187

lugger²

noun
plural luggers
1. A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails.
  Quotations
  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

lugger³

noun
plural luggers
1. An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.
  Quotations
  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