lugger
Americannoun
noun
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Christine Salter: In the 1920s, my grandfather needed to support his family, so at 14 years old, he jumped on an old wooden pearling lugger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
By the time he was 19, he was captain of his own lugger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
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
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
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
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