lugsail

Example Sentences

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Smartly he ran up a small lugsail, and set his boat's head towards the stranger.

From Adventures in Many Lands by Gillett, F.

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

There's a nice southwester blowing now, and under the big lugsail we ought to overhaul the canoe before he does so.

From The League of the Leopard by Bindloss, Harold

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 Holmes, Daniel Turner