lugsail

Example Sentences

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Smartly he ran up a small lugsail, and set his boat's head towards the stranger.

From Adventures in Many Lands by Gillett, F.

He has set the little black lugsail and the wind's fair.

From Partners of the Out-Trail by Bindloss, Harold

She carried her full complement of oars, a mast, and lugsail.

From His Unknown Wife by Tracy, Louis

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)

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