[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That tugs, in various senses.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 495/2. Toggynge (A. or) drawynge, attractulus.
1611. Cotgr., Roulier,… a lustie, tugging Iade.
1642. Rogers, Naaman, 149. Oh! it is a tugging crying sinne.
1657. Burton’s Diary (1828), II. 270. The Bill for the Excise was read the third time, and after … a great and tugging debate thereupon, the Bill passed.
1865. Cornh. Mag., May, 584. I should like a little more quiet talk with you, without this tugging brute for a third.
Hence Tuggingly adv., with tugging.
1731. Bailey, Tuggingly, difficultly.
