lugsail
Example Sentences
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The same afternoon the Swallow chased a large lugsail boat, with fourteen hands in her, and supposed to belong to the Kent.
From King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 by E. Keble (Edward Keble) Chatterton
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
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
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
We felt about, and found a lugsail and an oar.
From The Mate of the Lily Notes from Harry Musgrave's Log Book by Unknown
