lugsail
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These boats carry one lugsail on a mast shipped well amidships.
From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Stanley Treanor
We got back to Lerwick in a lugsail that was full of passengers, potatoes, and milk-cans.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes
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 Ernest Weekley
The origin of lugger is unknown, but the word is recorded a century later than lugsail, whence it is probably derived.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
The lugsail rustled down, the mast was lowered.
From The League of the Leopard by Harold Bindloss
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