Also 7 loggage, luggadge, -edge, lugage. [f. LUG v. + -AGE.]
1. † 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.
1596. Nashe, 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.
1596. Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., V. iv. 160. Come bring your luggage Nobly on your backe.
1609. Armin, Two Maids More-clacke, A 2. [Stage-direct.] Enter two watermen with luggedge.
1615. Bedwell, Moham. Imp., II. § 90. The pilgrimes do stay, and dispose of their … luggage where they meane to rest themselues.
1631. in Crt. & Times Chas. I. (1848), II. 127. The residue … taken prisoners, with all their … luggage.
1665. Glanvill, 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.
1726. Swift, Gulliver, II. ii. We had no other Company but a Boy of the House, who rode after us with the Luggage.
1827. R. Nesbit, in Mem. (1858), ii. 47. I got all my heavy luggage on board.
1851. Gallenga, Italy, 489. Heavy losses of cannon, ammunition, and luggage.
1902. Blackw. Mag., Oct., 464/1. The ladder-cart is loaded with luggage.
b. fig. and in figurative contexts.
1612. Donne, Progr. of Soul, Harbinger, 9. No soule—whiles with the luggage of this clay It clogged is—can follow thee halfe way.
1687. Dryden, Hind & P., III. 1033. A lively faith will bear aloft the mind And leave the luggage of good works behind.
1776. G. Campbell, Philos. Rhet. (1801), II. 356. The luggage of particles such as pronouns, prepositions and auxiliary verbs clogs the expression.
1820. Lamb, Elia, Ser. I. Two Races Men. Getting rid of the cumbersome luggage of riches.
1876. Geo. 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.
1624. Capt. 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.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, III. (1634), 52. Those uncountable multitudes … are … rather a luggage than an aide.
1629. Shirley, Wedding, V. ii. My misfortune made mee thinke … My very soule a luggage.
1693. Lister, in Phil. Trans., XVII. 643. Why should the Shell it self be brought, an useless Luggage so far.
1864. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., IV. 8. His whole army with its luggages.
† 3. The quality or condition of having to be lugged; heavy weight. Obs.
1667. Observ. 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, -boot, -carrier, -label, -porter, -ticket, train, -van.
1720. De Foe, Capt. Singleton, xii. (1840), 206. He sent him…, in a great *luggage-boat, a cow.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. IV. ii. A leathern Diligence, with its post-bags and *luggage-boots [etc.].
1760–72. H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), III. 64. The burden of the *luggage-carriers was … lightened.
1901. Daily Chron., 2 Oct., 9/3. Joseph Durisch, *luggage porter at the Walsingham House Hotel.
1898. ‘H. S. Merriman,’ Roden’s Corner, xxiii. 231. Give your *luggage ticket to the hotel porter.
1853. Mechanics’ Mag., LVIII. 394. To indicate … the class of the train that had last passed, whether ordinary, express, or *luggage.
1876. Geo. 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 Luggaged ppl. a., loaded with luggage; † Luggaging vbl. sb., carrying luggage.
1691. J. Wilson, Belphegor, III. i. My Back’s almost broke with Luggaging.
a. 1847. Eliza Cook, Rhymes by Roadside, i. We’re losing fast the luggaged roof, The whistling guard and ringing hoof.
