Obs. [Of obscure origin.

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  The mod. Cornwall dialect has ‘Lugg, the undergrowth of weed in a field of corn,’ but the identity of the word is doubtful.]

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  = FLAG sb.1 1.

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1538.  Turner, Libellus, Lug, acorum.

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1859.  W. K. Clay, Waterbeach, 21. Lugs (flags) … made a coarse kind of hay for foddering their cattle in the winter.

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