Definition of Lugsails

1. Noun. (plural of lugsail) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lugsails

1. lugsail [n] - See also: lugsail

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lugsails

lugger
luggers
luggie
luggies
lugging
lughole
lugholes
luging
lugings
lugmark
lugmarks
lugnut
lugnuts
lugs
lugsail
lugsails (current term)
lugubrious
lugubriously
lugubriousness
lugworm
lugworms
luing
luit
luiten
lujvo
lukewarm
lukewarmly
lukewarmness
lukewarmnesses
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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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