lugsail

Example Sentences

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The great bulk of the steamer soon floated away, and the lugsail was run up again, and the boat made slowly back for Castle Dare.

From Macleod of Dare by Black, William

These boats carry one lugsail on a mast shipped well amidships.

From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Treanor, Thomas Stanley

The gig carried a small mast and lugsail, and, the faint wind blowing fair down the creek, the Captain suggested our hoisting them.

From Poison Island by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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

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