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trug (TRUHG, TROOG) - (UK) n., a shallow gardening basket made with strips of wood.
Used for carrying tools, flowers, fruit, or whatever, and is possibly also used in American English? -- dictionaries are unclear on this -- American gardeners, please report. Dictionaries are also unclear on its history, but by the best consensus I can pull together, this dates to the 1570s in this sense, and while the origin is uncertain, it is possibly an Middle English alteration of tough, itself of Old Norse origin (compare Danish trug, tough).
---L.
Used for carrying tools, flowers, fruit, or whatever, and is possibly also used in American English? -- dictionaries are unclear on this -- American gardeners, please report. Dictionaries are also unclear on its history, but by the best consensus I can pull together, this dates to the 1570s in this sense, and while the origin is uncertain, it is possibly an Middle English alteration of tough, itself of Old Norse origin (compare Danish trug, tough).
---L.
