lugsail

Example Sentences

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The great bulk of the steamer soon floated away, and the lugsail was run up again, and the boat made slowly back for Castle Dare.

From Macleod of Dare by Black, William

The origin of lugger is unknown, but the word is recorded a century later than lugsail, whence it is probably derived.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

There's a nice southwester blowing now, and under the big lugsail we ought to overhaul the canoe before he does so.

From The League of the Leopard by Bindloss, Harold

It looked like certain death to leap into that lugsail.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner

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 Caine, Hall, Sir