lugsail
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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 Charles Herbert Sylvester
He was right: the lugsail was careering out to us and came alongside at length, and, after fearful trouble, got fastened to the Fingal.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes
Lug-sail after lugsail, brown as the underside of a mushroom, hurries out among the waves.
From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd
Didn't you have a bright, varnished boat with a teak topstrake and a red standing lugsail?
From The Wireless Officer by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman
It looked like certain death to leap into that lugsail.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes
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