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means To carry or drag something heavy and awkward, usually with visible effort and audible complaining; also, the protruding part (like a wheel lug or an ear) that something hangs or turns on.

from Lug surfaces in English around the late medieval period meaning 'to pull or drag heavily,' likely from Scandinavian roots — compare Swedish dialect 'lugga,' to pull someone's hair. The sense of a projecting handle or ear-like knob (as in a wheel lug) grew naturally from that: a lug is the part you grab onto, or the part sticking out, when you need to haul or turn something. 'Lug' for ear itself is an old, affectionate-turned-dismissive slang sense, likely from the same pulling root — ears being the original handles people grabbed when hauling someone off by them.