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Lugsail

noun
1.
A sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast.  Synonym: lug.





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"Lugsail" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lerwick in a lugsail that was full of passengers, potatoes, and milk-cans. There was a good deal of loud, elementary chaff during the twenty minutes' crossing. An old, wrinked, peat-smoked dame gave us much good advice and (better still) a sprig ...
— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes


Words linked to "Lugsail" :   lugger, junk, fore-and-aft sail


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