lugsail

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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 Sylvester, Charles Herbert

The explanation of lugsail as a sail that is lugged seems to be a piece of folk-etymology.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

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

He has set the little black lugsail and the wind's fair.

From Partners of the Out-Trail by Bindloss, Harold

That evening, however, when halfway home, a squall suddenly struck our own lightened boat, which was rigged with one large lugsail, and capsized her.

From A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir