lugsail
Example Sentences
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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
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
Then he could make out the dark figures on the quay, and the hoisting of the lugsail, and the putting off of the boat.
From Macleod of Dare by William Black
These boats carry one lugsail on a mast shipped well amidships.
From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Stanley Treanor
He has set the little black lugsail and the wind's fair.
From Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss
