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Lug-sail. World English Historical Dictionary

Lug-sail. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1903, rev. 2024. Lug-sail [Formation uncertain: perh. f. LUG v. or LUG sb.2] A four-cornered sail, bent upon a yard which is slung at about one-third or one-fourth of its length from one end, and so hangs obliquely. Also attrib.

1 1677.  Lond. Gaz., No. 1194/4. She is open in the Midships, and sails with a Lugsail, and one Topsail.

2 1769.  Falconer, Dict. Marine (1789), Voile de Fortune, the square or lug sail of a galley or tartane.

3 1799.  Naval Chron., I. 214. A lug-sail boat from Calais.

4 1892.  Stevenson, Across the Plains, 212. The boats with their reefed lugsails scudding for the harbour mouth.

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