lugsail
Example Sentences
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She carried a single mast, which listed forward; her lugsail was stretched upon dozens of bamboo yards; she drew hardly any water.
From Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris
That evening, however, when halfway home, a squall suddenly struck our own lightened boat, which was rigged with one large lugsail, and capsized her.
From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
Somebody was carrying a light on her deck, and the giant shadow of a man's figure was cast up on the new lugsail.
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Sir Hall Caine
It has got out of the set of the tide and has the wind well abeam, just the thing for that lugsail she carries.”
From The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
The gig carried a small mast and lugsail, and, the faint wind blowing fair down the creek, the Captain suggested our hoisting them.
From Poison Island by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
