lugsail
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of lugsail
1670–80; Middle English lugge pole (now dial.; cf. log 1) + sail
Example Sentences
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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 W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
Smartly he ran up a small lugsail, and set his boat's head towards the stranger.
From Adventures in Many Lands by F. Gillett
It looked like certain death to leap into that lugsail.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes
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 Ernest Weekley
She carried her full complement of oars, a mast, and lugsail.
From His Unknown Wife by Louis Tracy
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