lugsail

Example Sentences

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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 Kingston, William Henry Giles

These boats carry one lugsail on a mast shipped well amidships.

From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Treanor, Thomas Stanley

It looked like certain death to leap into that lugsail.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner

She carried her full complement of oars, a mast, and lugsail.

From His Unknown Wife by Tracy, Louis

"Keep her close up, sir," said the man who had the sheet of the huge lugsail in both his hands, as he cast a glance out at the darkening sea.

From Macleod of Dare by Black, William