lugsail
Example Sentences
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It has got out of the set of the tide and has the wind well abeam, just the thing for that lugsail she carries.”
From The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
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
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 Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell
The same afternoon the Swallow chased a large lugsail boat, with fourteen hands in her, and supposed to belong to the Kent.
From King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 by E. Keble (Edward Keble) Chatterton
We then discovered a lugsail, which had belonged to one of the ship's boats; this we hoisted; and our craft was ready to sail.
From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
