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Lugsail

noun
1.
A sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast.  Synonym: lug.






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"Lugsail" Quotes from Famous Books



... a pleasant scene, restful and quiet, with a touch of life and a hint of sober romance, when a barge swept down through the middle arch of the bridge with a lugsail hoisted to a jury mast and a white-aproned woman at the tiller. Dreamily I watched the craft creep by upon the moving tide, noted the low freeboard, almost awash, the careful helmswoman, and the dog on the forecastle yapping ...
— The Vanishing Man • R. Austin Freeman

... fiasco had surely weakened), speak out, and try and make an ally of her. Against her own father? I shrank from the responsibility and counted the cost of failure—certain failure, to judge by her conduct. She began to hoist her lugsail in a dazed, shiftless fashion, while our two boats drifted ...
— Riddle of the Sands • Erskine Childers



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