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luggage|ˈlʌgɪdʒ|
Also 7 loggage, luggadge, -edge, lugage.
[f. lug v. + -age.]
1. a. † In early use: What has to be lugged about; inconveniently heavy baggage (obs.). Also, the baggage of an army. Now, in Great Britain, the ordinary word for: The baggage belonging to a traveller or passenger, esp. by a public conveyance.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden F 1 b, I hearing the fellow so forlorne and out of comfort with his luggage, gaue him his Charons Naulum or ferry three half pence, & so dismist him to go to the place from whence he came. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, v. iv. 160 Come bring your luggage Nobly on your backe. 1609R. Armin Two Maids More-clacke A 2 [Stage-direct.] Enter two watermen with luggedge. 1615Bedwell Moham. Imp. ii. §90 The pilgrimes do stay, and dispose of their..luggage where they meane to rest themselues. 1631in Crt. & Times Chas. I (1848) II. 127 The residue..taken prisoners, with all their..luggage. 1665Glanvill Def. Vain Dogm. p. xii, If the Luggage be prized equally with the Jewels, none will be cast out, till all be lost and shipwrack't. 1726Swift Gulliver ii. ii, We had no other Company but a Boy of the House, who rode after us with the Luggage. 1827R. Nesbit in Mem. (1858) ii. 47, I got all my heavy luggage on board. 1851Gallenga Italy 489 Heavy losses of cannon, ammunition, and luggage. 1902Blackw. Mag. Oct. 464/1 The ladder-cart is loaded with luggage.
b. fig. and in figurative contexts.
1612Donne Progr. of Soul, Harbinger 9 No soule—whiles with the luggage of this clay It cloggèd is—can follow thee halfe way. 1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 1033 A lively faith will bear aloft the mind And leave the luggage of good works behind. 1776G. Campbell Philos. Rhet. (1801) II. 356 The luggage of particles such as pronouns, prepositions and auxiliary verbs clogs the expression. 1820Lamb Elia Ser. i. Two Races Men, Getting rid of the cumbersome luggage of riches. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. lxii. IV. 224 The continued visit of that familiar sorrow which had lately come back, bringing abundant luggage.
†c. Goods in general. Obs. rare—1.
1624Capt. Smith Virginia 54 Powhatan..presented him with twentie Turkies... Now..he presented Captaine Smith with the like luggage.
2.
†a. With a. An encumbrance (obs.).
b. pl. nonce-use = impedimenta.
1614Raleigh Hist. World iii. (1634) 52 Those uncountable multitudes..are..rather a luggage than an aide. 1629Shirley Wedding v. ii, My mis-fortune made mee thinke..My very soule a luggage. 1693Lister in Phil. Trans. XVII. 643 Why should the Shell it self be brought, an useless Luggage so far. 1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. IV. 8 His whole army with its luggages.
†3. The quality or condition of having to be lugged; heavy weight. Obs.
1667Observ. Burning Lond. in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 445 Four commodities, which, for their luggage and cumbersomeness, could not be rescued from the jaws of that unmerciful element, that is, wine, tobacco, spices, and books.
4. attrib. and Comb., as luggage-boat, luggage-boot, luggage-carrier, luggage-grid, luggage-label, luggage-porter, luggage-rack, luggage-rest, luggage-ticket, luggage train, luggage-van; luggage locker, a locker (sense 5) at a railway station, air terminal, etc., for use by passengers.
1720De Foe Capt. Singleton xii. (1840) 206 He sent him.., in a great *luggage-boat, a cow.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. III. iv. ii, A leathern Diligence, with its post-bags and *luggage-boots [etc.]. 1972Country Life 7 Dec. 1592/3 The luggage boot is..fairly well filled by the spare wheel.
1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 64 The burden of the *luggage-carriers was..lightened.
1907Westm. Gaz. 12 Feb. 4/2 A telescopic *luggage-grid capable of taking heavy trunks. 1928Luggage grid [see grid 9].
1969Guardian 21 Aug. 9/6 The dreary rows of *luggage lockers. 1971M. Kelly 25th Hour i. 9, I drove to the main station..and..I put my case in a luggage locker.
1901Daily Chron. 2 Oct. 9/3 Joseph Durisch, *luggage porter at the Walsingham House Hotel.
1905Daily Chron. 18 May 4/5 Holding on..to the *luggage-rack in the narrow..boxes which serve for [train] compartments. 1928Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 21/2 Just below the luggage-rack is an indicator by which the passenger may control the amount of steam entering the radiator. 1973C. Williams Man on Leash (1974) i. 5 The room was cool... He dropped the bag on a luggage rack.
1941‘N. Blake’ Case of Abominable Snowman viii. 83 That *luggage-rest..at the end of the bed.
1898H. S. Merriman Roden's Corner xxiii. 231 Give your *luggage ticket to the hotel porter.
1846R. Ford Gatherings from Spain v. 49 A handful of opponents..may..burn the engines.., particularly smashing the *luggage train. 1853Mechanics' Mag. LVIII. 394 To indicate..the class of the train that had last passed, whether ordinary, express, or luggage. 1899O. Wilde Importance of being Earnest iii. 127 Apprised, sir, of my daughter's sudden flight.., I followed her at once by a luggage train.
1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xxxv. III. 23 Like the sprite of ill-luck you..see grinning at you from the top of your *luggage-van.
Hence ˈluggaged ppl. a., loaded with luggage; † ˈluggaging vbl. n., carrying luggage.
1691J. Wilson Belphegor iii. i, My Back's almost broke with Luggaging. a1847Eliza Cook Rhymes by Roadside i, We're losing fast the luggaged roof, The whistling guard and ringing hoof.
Add:[1.] d. spec. Bags, suitcases, etc., designed to hold the belongings of a traveller.
1915Trunks, Leather Goods & Umbrellas Jan. 60/1 The only assumption to make in having luggage in your store is that the man or woman who comes in to buy a bag is going to travel. 1919Travel Aug. 1/2 (Advt.), Correct luggage. Wardrobe, dress and steamer trunks [etc.]. 1948H. G. Kates Luggage & Leather Goods Manuf. 83 Because of the small size of the skins, calf is rarely used for luggage. 1969Sears Catal. Spring/Summer 293 Introducing our new economical semi-molded luggage. 1990N. Bissoondath Smoke in On Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows (1991) 109 Althea Wilson and a friend would be going to Hawaii. She was going to have..a set of new luggage to put her new designer wardrobe into. |