What's the difference between lagger and lugger?

Lagger


Definition:

  • (n.) A laggard.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The mortality of 3000 male factory workers, 1400 laggers, and 700 women factory workers in east London has been studied.
  • (2) Laggers were employed on contract in increasing numbers in later years.
  • (3) A sub-group of 39 men, who were working as asbestos laggers or sprayers before 1957, was identified.
  • (4) The prevalence of pleural fibrosis ranged from 28% in continuously exposed workers to 1.9% in those with least exposure.Most cases of pulmonary fibrosis occurred in laggers and sprayers who had been continuously exposed for between 15 and 20 years.
  • (5) Grassroots organisers for the GMB and Unite unions were inundated with calls from members who wanted to join the industrial action erupting at the Lindsey oil refinery near Grimsby, where hundreds of welders, engineers, pipe-fitters and laggers had launched the biggest protest yet at the employment of foreign workers on energy construction projects.
  • (6) The campaign group described P&G as both a “market leader and a lagger”, for failing to drive change in the industry.
  • (7) A follow-up study of 162 men already working as insulators (laggers) in 1940 has been extended from 1965 to 1975.
  • (8) Mesothelioma was found to cluster in laggers, electricians, and shipyard workers, and nasal carcinoma in woodworkers.

Lugger


Definition:

  • (n.) A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails. See Illustration in Appendix.
  • (n.) An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On the north side of his uncle raced the fresh-painted Aztec, the sailing lugger owned by the Czechs who lived on the river, and knifing between, but coming in, was The Two Sons, its decks piled high with sacks of oysters, Jackie standing at the very bow, raising his arms and waving with big sweeps of his sun-brightened hands.
  • (2) The day before, he'd seen the big wooden oyster lugger The Two Sons go by, loaded down, and he'd waved at his cousins Henry and Rene where they sat on the deck sorting what they had dredged up from their lease, even though Henry and Rene had been dead of old age for many years and The Two Sons lay sunk and rotting in Lake Borgne.