lugger
Americannoun
noun
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Origin of lugger
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Example Sentences
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But I’d guess that, like me — smartphone addict, laptop lugger, owner of an electric car — you had no idea just how bad.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2023
"Oh, it was a fine and pleasant day/ Out of Yarmouth harbour I was faring/ As a cabin boy on a sailing lugger/ For to go and hunt the shoals of herring," he sings.
From BBC • Feb. 9, 2014
Adam Kerr, the skipper of a restored 19th Century Cornish fishing lugger, the Barnabas, sailed 400 nautical miles to take part.
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2012
His daughter married one Salvador D'Antoni who sailed a lugger on the river.
From Time Magazine Archive
A good many persons of the pension had gone over to the Chiniere Caminada in Beaude- let’s lugger to hear mass.
From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin
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