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Luggit, adj. Also: lugit, -et, lwgit, -yt, lugget; lugg(e)d; lowgit, -ed; loogit, -ed. [Lug n. also north. e.m.E. lugde (1594–5) in sense 2 a below.]

1. a. Of a cap: Having a flap (? a peak) or ? flaps. b. Of shoes: Having flaps or ? tongues.a. 1489 Treas. Acc. I. 146.
For a lwgyt cap and a bonat to the King 1494 Ib. 223.
For a luggit cap to the King to ryde wythb. 1611 Inverness Rec. II. 84.
That the cordenaris sel men schon luggit for 13s. 4d., the unluggit schon veil maid for xii s.

2. a. Of a vessel or tub: Having projecting lugs or handles.(1) 1535 Aberd. B. Rec. MS. XV. 674 (Jam.).
vi lowgit dischis of pewtyr 1542 Inv. Wardrobe 74.
Ane luggit dische without ane cover 1542 Rec. Univ. Aberd. 572. 1552 Old Dundee II. 241. c 1560 in Lynd. (S.T.S.) IV. 276. 1560 Stirling B. Rec. I. 72. 1565 Prot. Bk. G. Grote (S.R.S.) 68. 1567 Edinb. Test. I. 35.
Sex luggit tyn discheis foure trincheouris 1578 Biggar 331. 1578 Prot. Bk. J. Scott MS. 57 b. c1575 Balfour Pract. 235. 1597 Edinb. Test. XXX. 45.
Fourtie luggit dischis at vij s. the pece 1614 Laing MSS. I. 138.(2) 1616 M. Works Acc. (ed.) II. 51.
For a luget tub 1622 Breadalbane Coll. MS. Doc. No. 428.
Of toubis … iij. quhairof ane lwgit, Off tubbis … v quhairof lugit 1643 Glasg. Univ. Mun. III. 537.
Ane lugged tub with a wirtdish 1645 Edinb. Test. LXI. 134 b.
Ane littill hand tub, luggit 1685 Soc. Ant. LVIII. 362.
3 milk tubs, a milk lugged tub(3) 1627 Orkn. & Shetl. Test. I. 170.
Sex luggit cappis pryce of the peice ij s.

b. Of laces or braids: ? Fashioned with ornamental ‘ears’ or loops or the like projecting laterally from the line of the braid.See also Brade-luggit adj. — 1539 Treas. Acc. VII. 134.
For iij uncis of small luggit pasmentis to it [a mantle for the King] 1567 Ib. MS. 268.
Ten vnce of bissettis of fyne blak silk luggit on baith the sidis, the vnce xiiij s. 1574 Edinb. Test. III. 143 b. 1579 Ib. VII. 116 b.
viij pund xiiij vnce pasmentis of silk of diuers cullouris luggit & vnluggit, … tua vnces of luggit siluer pasmentis 1586 Ib. XV. 109. 1610 Ib. XLVI. 166. 1622 Brechin Test. IV. 62 b; 1628 Ib. 333. 1632 Inv. Newark 2 a.
Ane gingillan grograin bed with nyn scoir of ellis lugit lace of blew and orriange to mount it with 1632 14th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. iii. 235.
Ane blak wroght velvet goun, laid over with gold lugit lace 1647 Edinb. Test. LXIII. 215.
Twa bolt of rid loogit camell hair

c. Of buttons: ? Having a tag. 1592 Edinb. Test. XXV. 24 b.

3. Having ears of a specified kind.b. Hing-lugg'd, droop-eared, hang-dog; cf. to hing the lugs, Lug n. 1 c.(1) 1582 Edinb. Test. (see Hingand ppl. a. b).
Hingand luggit 1614 Crim. Trials III. 265 (see Cut-luggit adj.). 1672 Kirkcudbr. Test. (Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct.) 23.
Ane [bl]ack cow broune luggit 1679 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Processes No. 310.
Ane broun backed and broun lugged ox 1682 Lauder's Observes App. iv. 309.
Ane cutt lugged brounish coloured mastiff tyke 1684 Law Memor. (1818) 176.
An elephant … a great beast with … small eyes and dull, lowged like two skats lying closs to its heid 1696 Ayr & W. Coll. IV. 191.
Ane … horse. somquhat wyd lugged(2) 1665 Lauder Jrnl. 17.
Fat looged stirrows Ib. 31.
A fat looged fellowb. 1686 G. Stuart Joco-Ser. Disc. 8.
Show'd some hing lugg'd Whig sneak under the dykes, He'll say to his sel, Yon's twa Tory tykes

c. Of ‘bands’ or fashioned strips of metal: Having (long) flanges or projections. 1563–4 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 472.
For x pair of bandis, lang luggit cors tailitt rugand wys, pryce xv s.