lug-sail

To the right of us I saw the captain of a junk chop away his mooring line with an axe and spring to help his crew at the hoisting of the huge, outlandish lug-sail.

White and Yellow 2010

In the dawn the sail was nearer, and I saw it was the dirty lug-sail of a small boat.

The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006

By sunset they had provided a tolerable lug-sail; having split one of the boat's thwarts, (which was of yellow deal,) with a very large knife, which one of the crew had in his pocket, they made a yard and lashed it together by the strands of the fore-top-gallant-halyards, that were thrown into the boat promiscuously.

Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. Anonymous

Within the basin were lying many canoes, and also boats of a larger sort that carried oars and that were rigged with a sort of lug-sail; but these all kept away from us, even as all the boats which we had seen during our passage of the lake had given us a wide berth.

The Aztec Treasure-House Thomas Allibone Janvier

The first message from our seven-pounder did not bring her to, nor did a second, but when a third went unpleasantly close, right through her broad lug-sail, we could see her come up to the wind sharp, while a fourth shot, which we now sent to show those on board that we meant business and would be obeyed, caused her heavy yard to be dropped by the run in token of surrender.

The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace

The ship was all alone upon the water, not even the tan of a fisher's lug-sail broke the blue.

Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

While I made the seats ready for the voyagers and handed them in, Yeo took two reefs in the lug-sail (an act which seemed, I must say, with what wind we felt there, to be carrying his prescience to bold lengths) and hauled the sail to its place.

Old Junk 1915

To the right of us I saw the captain of a junk chop away his mooring line with an axe and spring to help his crew at the hoisting of the huge, outlandish lug-sail.

White and Yellow 1905

As for the lug-sail belonging to the dinghy, it was never seen again.

The Blue Lagoon: a romance 1907

In the dawn the sail was nearer, and I saw it was the dirty lug-sail of a small boat.

The Island of Doctor Moreau 1906