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lugsail

[luhg-seyl, luhg-suhl] / ˈlʌgˌseɪl, ˈlʌg səl /
NOUN
square sail
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Didn't you have a bright, varnished boat with a teak topstrake and a red standing lugsail?

From The Wireless Officer by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)

He has set the little black lugsail and the wind's fair.

From Partners of the Out-Trail by Bindloss, Harold

The lugsail rustled down, the mast was lowered.

From The League of the Leopard by Bindloss, Harold

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

From The Pleasures of Ignorance by Lynd, Robert

On one occasion, in the West Highlands, I availed myself of a lugsail ferry to cross an arm of the sea and so avoid a long détour by land.

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