Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A quadrilateral sail that lacks a boom, has the foot larger than the head, and is bent to a yard hanging obliquely on the mast.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A quadrilateral sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast at about one third of its length: a common rig for boats of men-of-war. Also
lug .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical A
quadrilateral sail bent upon ayard that crosses themast obliquely; alug .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It's a Scottish lugsail dinghy of the older variety and she's a beauty.
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It's a Scottish lugsail dinghy of the older variety and she's a beauty.
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The foremast was rigged with a sail that Champlain called bourcet or lugsail, an irregular quadrilateral bent on a diagonal yard.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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He ordered the “anchor raised and lugsail spread to the wind,” and tried desperately to get clear of a lee shore.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The mainsail and lugsail could be used to run before the wind.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The lateen and lugsail could be close-hauled, allowing a vessel to sail very close to the wind.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Many carried a bourcet, or lugsail, on the foremast see below for an explanation, or two lugsails on the fore-and mainmasts as their only rig.15
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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They were two-masted vessels with the mainmast forward, a lugsail, and a large lateen.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The mainsail and lugsail could be used to run before the wind.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The foremast carried a lugsail that he called a bourcet on a yard that crossed the foremast at an oblique angle.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
chained_bear commented on the word lugsail
"'Pin her, Joe,' said Bonden. The bowman hooked on at the mainchains, the big lugsail came down with a run, and speaking in a curt, official voice Bonden said, 'Now, sir, if you please. We can't hang about all day under the barky's lee. I'll look after your old parcel.'"
—Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission, 27
February 11, 2008