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 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
We got back to Lerwick in a lugsail that was full of passengers, potatoes, and milk-cans.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes
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
One could hardly see her low, gray hull, but the tanned lugsail cut sharply against the bank, and its slant and the splash of foam at the bows indicated speed.
From Partners of the Out-Trail by Harold Bindloss
On one occasion, in the West Highlands, I availed myself of a lugsail ferry to cross an arm of the sea and so avoid a long détour by land.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes
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