Word Meanings - LUGGAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which is lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their contents. I am gathering up my luggage, and preparing for my journey. Swift. What do you mean, To dote thus on such luggage!

Additional info about word: LUGGAGE

That which is lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their contents. I am gathering up my luggage, and preparing for my journey. Swift. What do you mean, To dote thus on such luggage! Shak. Syn. -- Plunder; baggage. Luggage van, a vehicle for carrying luggage; a railway car, or compartment of a car, for carrying luggage.

Related words: (words related to LUGGAGE)

• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• JOURNEYWORK
  Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade.
• CARRIBOO
  See CARIBOU
• CARRIABLE
  Capable of being carried.
• TRAVELER
  A traveling crane. See under Crane. (more info) 1. One who travels; one who has traveled much. 2. A commercial agent who travels for the purpose of receiving orders for merchants, making collections, etc.
• PREPARATIVELY
  By way of preparation.
• CARRIAGEABLE
  Passable by carriages; that can be conveyed in carriages. Ruskin.
• JOURNEYER
  One who journeys.
• JOURNEY-BATED
  Worn out with journeying. Shak.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SWIFTNESS
  The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
• SWIFTLET
  Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• SWIFTER
  A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it. A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides. The forward shroud of a lower mast.
• GATHERER
  An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects.
• HEAVY-HEADED
  Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
• LUGGER
  A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails. See Illustration in Appendix. Totten.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• CARRIAGE
  carriage, cart, baggage, F. charriage, cartage, wagoning, fr. OF. 1. That which is carried; burden; baggage. David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage. 1. Sam. xvii. 22. And after those days we took up our carriages and
• GATHERABLE
  Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. Godwin.
• MEGATHEROID
  One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• SLUGGARDIZE
  To make lazy. Shak.
• UPGATHER
  To gather up; to contract; to draw together. Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser.
• SCARRING
  A scar; a mark. We find upon the limestone rocks the scarrings of the ancient glacier which brought the bowlder here. Tyndall.
• RECARRIAGE
  Act of carrying back.
• TOP-HEAVY
  Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.