hug

1) To carry, a dialect word noted in Yorkshire from 1788 (OED).

1729 she might as well have some of Nicholls stuff as an other body for it would all go and Sarah Priestley would help to hug some of it away, Elland. The word is still in use, pronounced without the initial ‘h’.

places Elland
dates 1729

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