lugsail
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"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 William Black
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
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
Lug-sail after lugsail, brown as the underside of a mushroom, hurries out among the waves.
From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Robert Lynd
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