lugsail

Example Sentences

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The gig carried a small mast and lugsail, and, the faint wind blowing fair down the creek, the Captain suggested our hoisting them.

From Poison Island by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

The explanation of lugsail as a sail that is lugged seems to be a piece of folk-etymology.

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.)

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

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