lugsail

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Lug-sail after lugsail, brown as the underside of a mushroom, hurries out among the waves.

From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Lynd, Robert

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

From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Treanor, Thomas Stanley

It looked like certain death to leap into that lugsail.

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

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