lugsail
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There was something of a breeze, and they hoisted a lugsail so that they should run out to meet the steamer.
From Macleod of Dare by William Black
These boats carry one lugsail on a mast shipped well amidships.
From Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Stanley Treanor
Somebody was carrying a light on her deck, and the giant shadow of a man's figure was cast up on the new lugsail.
From The Manxman A Novel - 1895 by Sir Hall Caine
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
She carried a single mast, which listed forward; her lugsail was stretched upon dozens of bamboo yards; she drew hardly any water.
From Moran of the Lady Letty by Frank Norris
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