lugsail

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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)

On one occasion, in the West Highlands, I availed myself of a lugsail ferry to cross an arm of the sea and so avoid a long détour by land.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner

The French for lugsail is voile de fortune, and a still earlier name, which occurs also in Tudor English, is bonaventure, i.e., good luck.

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

She carried her full complement of oars, a mast, and lugsail.

From His Unknown Wife by Tracy, Louis

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