Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A small boat used for fishing, sailing, or coasting and having two or three masts, each with a lugsail, and two or three jibs set on the bowsprit.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A vessel carrying either two or three masts, often with a running bowsprit and always with lug-sails. On the bowsprit are set two or three jibs, and the lug-sails hang obliquely to the masts.
- n. Same as jugger.
Wiktionary
- n. A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails.
- n. A conman.
- n. An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Naut.) A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails. See
Illustration in Appendix. - n. (Zoöl.) An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small fishing boat rigged with one or more lugsails
Etymologies
- From lugsail. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The lugger was a stranger, white, painted with a red mark, “very flash.””
“The lugger was a beautiful boat, according to the idea of beauty that then prevailed, having been constructed by Mr George”
“You think that fellow with the lugger was the captain?" asked Murray.”
“The lugger was a fast boat, the wind just suited her, and the brig fell farther and farther astern until, as the former entered the bay of Quimper and laid her course north, the brig hauled her wind and turned to rejoin the vessels off Brest.”
“It was soon evident that the lugger was a fast craft.”
“Well, Tonti," answered Signor Viti, in a protecting manner, and with an affable smile, "as this is not an affair that is likely to go to the higher courts at Florence, your explanations may be taken as sufficient, and I have no wish to disturb them -- a lugger is a lugger.”
“He tells us that the lugger is a craft much in use among the”
“The lugger is a celebrated French privateer, that we have six cruisers in chase of at this moment, our own ship included.”
“Italians reluctant converts to the opinion of the Englishman, that the lugger was the dreaded and obnoxious Feu-Follet.”
“The three vessels were not more than half a cable's length asunder; that is, we were about that distance from the ship, and the lugger was a very little farther from us.”
Lists
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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Out to Sea
If I had a boat
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Go out on the ocean
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The Aubrey/Maturin List I'm Gonna Mak...
I'm wading through Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels one by one, and someday, I'll wade through them again and list all the words I learned while reading them.
Edit: I started ma...studdingsail, carronade, mumchance, grumlin-futtocks, crosscat-harpings, holystone, sennit, orlop, orchitis, negus, kevel, altumal and 1112 more...
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For stuff to simply reside.
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The Awakening
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befurbelowed, lugger, pension, quadroon, bonbons, peignoir, rockaway, friandises, creole, accouchements, vouchsafe, remonstrate and 30 more...
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Transportation
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chained_bear "...as he turned he caught sight of a lugger hoisting her sail in the harbour..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Letter of Marque, 24 Feb 27, 2008
reesetee A small European sailing vessel used often by by smugglers and privateers around the English Channel in the 18th century. Aug 2, 2007