lugsail
Example Sentences
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He was right: the lugsail was careering out to us and came alongside at length, and, after fearful trouble, got fastened to the Fingal.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes
The Admiral Hood was a small dandy-rigged fore-and-after, that is to say, she was a cutter with a small mizzen on which she would set a lugsail.
From King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 by E. Keble (Edward Keble) Chatterton
We then discovered a lugsail, which had belonged to one of the ship's boats; this we hoisted; and our craft was ready to sail.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
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
Somebody was carrying a light on her deck, and the giant shadow of a man's figure was cast up on the new lugsail.
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Sir Hall Caine
