lug

To lug something is to carry it when it is too heavy to carry comfortably. A suitcase up four flights because the lift is out. Two bags of compost from the car to the back garden, with a stop halfway to change hands.

It nearly always comes with a preposition doing the suffering: lug it up, lug it around, lug it across town. Luggage is what you lug. The word is informal and a little comic, so you lug a crate and you do not lug a wine glass, and it puts the effort into the picture in a way that carry never does. As a noun, a lug is a stiff handle or projection you grip or bolt through, such as the lugs on a cast-iron pot or the lug nuts holding a wheel on. In Scotland and the north of England a lug is an ear, which is where lug-hole comes from.