Crossword clues for lugsail
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lugsail \Lug"sail`\, n. (Naut.)
A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the
mast and is raised or lowered with the sail.
--Totten.
Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) A quadrilateral sail bent upon a yard that crosses the mast obliquely; a lug.
WordNet
n. a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast [syn: lug]
Usage examples of "lugsail".
Fitted for twelve oars, a steering sweep, and a small lugsail, they are.
The big lugsail, which had been flapping listless as a bedsheet in the light breeze, began to fill.
But still, we did have a misshapen sort of punt of our own, with a lugsail we were hardly strong enough to hoist: it was the most crossgrained brute that ever swam, and although it was so monstrous heavy, it would overset for a nothing.
And there were moments of freedom, when the ship was moored so far out that rowing supplies out would have half- killed the hands, and Alan discovered the pleasure of sailing a small boat under a lugsail, racing other cutters to the docks on a day of brisk wind, then a quick quart for all hands before rac- ing back.
But at last he got his preliminaries settled, and left his bivouac among the maddening mosquitoes, and the slime, and the snaky tree roots, and took to the seas again in a lugsail boat, which he annexed by force of arms from its four original owners.
He had no more qualms in capturing that lugsail boat from a superior force than Nelson once had about taking large ships from the French in the Bay of Aboukir.
She began to hoist her lugsail in a dazed, shiftless fashion, while our two boats drifted slowly to leeward.
The mast was already stepped, and their scrap of lugsail took what was left of the wind and pulled the cutter with it.
They had hoisted the lugsail, stowed the oars, and were now making a good seven knots or so with the wind on the starboard quarter.
Nestbyte, who steers the boat from the stern sheets, counts the breeze insufficient to hoist the lugsail and we must perforce row on.
The lugsail, yard, and rigging tumbled down, causing further panic among the horses, but at least the wind no long threatened to push them over and the deck came level again.
There was a huge, high-sided, square-ended three-master, with slatted yellow lugsails, from the Salimor Islands, far off in the Eastern Ocean.
The man at the tiller waved his cap, and what appeared to be a slender lad sprang forward to put the dipping lugsails on the other tack.
And then, in short jerks, a grey, ragged, patched old lugsail, far too small for the boat, rose cockeye to the masthead.
There were the unmistakable lugsails of a French coaster coming round the bold headland of Point Matthew.