lugger

American  

[luhg-er] / ˈlʌg ər /

noun

Nautical.

1. a small ship lug-rigged on two or three masts.

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lugger British  

/ ˈlʌɡə /

noun

1. nautical a small working boat rigged with a lugsail

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Etymology

Origin of lugger

First recorded in 1785–95; lug(sail) + -er ¹

Example Sentences

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

A motorcycle and a friend's lugger land John Creed safely among the dunes of France.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now when I saw him there I wept for pity and called out to him: ‘How is this, Elpenor, how could you journey to the western gloom swifter afoot than I in the black lugger?’

From "The Odyssey" by Homer