Synonyms for lugsail
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : luhg-seyl; Nautical luhg-suh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈlʌgˌseɪl; Nautical ˈlʌg səl |
Définition of lugsail
- As in square sail : noun four-sided sail
- She carried her full complement of oars, a mast, and lugsail.
- Extract from : « His Unknown Wife » by Louis Tracy
- The peak of her lugsail is cut very high, and her mast, yard, and boom are very light and workmanlike.
- Extract from : « Yachting Vol. 1 » by Various.
- This will be only a small expense, since the great peak of the lugsail will allow of its head being squared.
- Extract from : « Yachting Vol. 1 » by Various.
- Marston had had the lugsail and jib made in England by a famous yacht-chandler, and the boat was fast.
- Extract from : « Wyndham's Pal » by Harold Bindloss
- She rolled on the angry combers and the boom that stretched the lugsail's foot tossed up.
- Extract from : « Wyndham's Pal » by Harold Bindloss
- We got back to Lerwick in a lugsail that was full of passengers, potatoes, and milk-cans.
- Extract from : « Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland » by Daniel Turner Holmes
- These boats carry one lugsail on a mast shipped well amidships.
- Extract from : « Heroes of the Goodwin Sands » by Thomas Stanley Treanor
- She carried a single mast, which listed forward; her lugsail was stretched upon dozens of bamboo yards; she drew hardly any water.
- Extract from : « Moran of the Lady Letty » by Frank Norris
- They have very little gear with the lugsail rig, and the decks are always clear.
- Extract from : « Yachting Vol. 1 » by Various.
- She began to hoist her lugsail in a dazed, shiftless fashion, while our two boats drifted slowly to leeward.
- Extract from : « The Riddle of the Sands » by Erskine Childers
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