lugsail
Example Sentences
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It looked like certain death to leap into that lugsail.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner
The Admiral Hood was a small dandy-rigged fore-and-after, that is to say, she was a cutter with a small mizzen on which she would set a lugsail.
From King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 by Chatterton, E. Keble (Edward Keble)
In a short time a breeze sprang up, when we hoisted our little lugsail, and skimmed merrily over the water, just rippled into wavelets by the brisk breeze.
From In the Eastern Seas by Kingston, William Henry Giles
The light was growing each moment, the breeze dying fast, and presently the damp lugsail slatted against the mast.
From The League of the Leopard by Bindloss, Harold
We then discovered a lugsail, which had belonged to one of the ship's boats; this we hoisted; and our craft was ready to sail.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert
