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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These boats carry one lugsail on a mast shipped well amidships.
From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Stanley Treanor
The great bulk of the steamer soon floated away, and the lugsail was run up again, and the boat made slowly back for Castle Dare.
From Macleod of Dare by William Black
Lug-sail after lugsail, brown as the underside of a mushroom, hurries out among the waves.
From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd
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
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
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