lugsail

Example Sentences

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Lug-sail after lugsail, brown as the underside of a mushroom, hurries out among the waves.

From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Lynd, Robert

It looked like certain death to leap into that lugsail.

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

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

We got back to Lerwick in a lugsail that was full of passengers, potatoes, and milk-cans.

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