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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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 Ernest Weekley
He has set the little black lugsail and the wind's fair.
From Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss
These boats carry one lugsail on a mast shipped well amidships.
From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Stanley Treanor
The light was growing each moment, the breeze dying fast, and presently the damp lugsail slatted against the mast.
From The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss
In a short time a breeze sprang up, when we hoisted our little lugsail, and skimmed merrily over the water, just rippled into wavelets by the brisk breeze.
From In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston
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