lugsail

Example Sentences

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Didn't you have a bright, varnished boat with a teak topstrake and a red standing lugsail?

From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

"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

There was something of a breeze, and they hoisted a lugsail so that they should run out to meet the steamer.

From Macleod of Dare by Black, William

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 Bindloss, Harold

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 Holmes, Daniel Turner