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tug

noun as in quick pull

verb as in pull quickly

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Meanwhile, Lidl - like John Lewis - has gone for a classic tale designed to tug at the heartstrings.

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The load on the tug's towlines was also between two and five times more than Clydeport's recommended speed range.

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It found the pilot had not worked with tugs like Biter before and "did not understand" what the tug would be doing on the manoeuvre.

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The report also highlighted that the cruise ship's master and tug masters did not have a "shared understanding" of the plan of the Clydeport pilot, who was controlling Hebridean Princess at the time.

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He said: "In less than 10 seconds the tug capsized, and two experienced seafarers lost their lives, because of a breakdown of the systems that should have kept them safe."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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