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Definition of Lugsails
1. lugsail [n] - See also: lugsail
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lugsails
Literary usage of Lugsails
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cassell's Complete Book of Sports and Pastimes: Being a Compendium of Out by Cassell & Co, Cassell (London) (1896)
"lugsails. This is not so handy iu many ways to a beginner as a sprit. ...
Modern lugsails have more or less peak, aud the yard is not suspended from itn ..."
2. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"A boat, or small vessel, rigged with lugsails. ... lugsails. (Sails.) L'ultima
che si perde è la ..."
3. Maritime Discovery: A History of Nautical Exploration from the Earliest Times by Charles Rathbone Low (1881)
"The ordinary seagoing cargo-boat is of nearly the same rig as the fishing- boat ;
having two large lugsails of matting, with a smaller one at the stern. ..."
4. Mast and Sail in Europe and Asia by Herbert Warington Smyth (1906)
"degrees with the higher-peaked, shorter luff lugsails. which again will lead ...
Main and fore lugsails set on masts stepped amidships, and right forward, ..."
5. A Poet's Sketch-book: Selections from the Prose Writings of Robert Buchanan by Robert Williams Buchanan (1883)
"... the Newhaven boat with its two lugsails; the Isle of Man " jigger;" the
beautiful Guernsey runner, handsome as a racing yacht, and powerful as a ..."
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