lugsail

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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)

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 Holmes, Daniel Turner

The French for lugsail is voile de fortune, and a still earlier name, which occurs also in Tudor English, is bonaventure, i.e., good luck.

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

She carried a single mast, which listed forward; her lugsail was stretched upon dozens of bamboo yards; she drew hardly any water.

From Moran of the Lady Letty by Norris, Frank

In a short time a breeze sprang up, when we hoisted our little lugsail, and skimmed merrily over the water, just rippled into wavelets by the brisk breeze.

From In the Eastern Seas by Kingston, William Henry Giles