lugsail

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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

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

It has got out of the set of the tide and has the wind well abeam, just the thing for that lugsail she carries.”

From The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)

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

From Adventures in Many Lands by Gillett, F.

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