Originally Posted by ptquilts
speaking of buggies, when we moved to NH our neighbor referred to carrying things in the wheelbarrow as "buggy lugging". It stuck with us (we do a lot of buggy lugging of firewood, etc.) What else would you say, wheelbarrowing?
There is hardly any flat rock free ground in NH. Early settlers invented two wheeled carts for lugging all those rocks to the edge of where they were, and making rock fences... those might have been called buggies in early days...
I think wheelbarrowing sounds like a perfectly respectable word.
My mom, who was of the older NH generation, always used the word lugging by itself, describing taking anything anywhere, including us children!
Jeannie