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- noun Plural form of
lugsail .
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Examples
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The lugsails are arranged in a tetrahedral, that is, each of the four lugsails is oriented exactly 109.47 degrees from the other three.
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As the century progressed, however, Japanese shipwrights adopted Chinese designs, such as lugsails and tapered or rounded bottoms, with the result that Japanese vessels became faster and more seaworthy.
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Even though not all the photographs from these expeditions expressly speak of war—there are beautiful shots of an ornate palace gate in India, a Chinese mosque with a swooping tiled roof, a Korean junk with lugsails hoisted—it is clear that the connection to war was a major selling point.
He Showed Us the Orient That We Wanted to See Lee Lawrence 2011
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Newtonian mainmasts are rigged with four graviton lugsails.
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The beauty of this technology is that each of the lugsails can be targeted to the characteristic exchange particles from a specific astronomical body.
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The lugsails project extremely large (one million square mile, maximum), invisible, teardrop shaped force fields into space that are designed to “catch” the gravitons, and/or antigravitons, associated with astronomical bodies.
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Don't know about you but I've never been sure about lugsails with a one man crew - it all seems unnecessarily complicated when a gaff might have done.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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Don't know about you but I've never been sure about lugsails with a one man crew - it all seems unnecessarily complicated when a gaff might have done.
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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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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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