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lug-sail

lug-sail is the alternative form of lugsail.

Meaning of lugsail

Noun

lugsail (plural lugsails)

  1. A quadrilateral sail bent upon a yard that crosses the mast obliquely; a lug.
    • It was a bright afternoon, with just enough wind over the quarter to set our lugsail well abulge, and make our little “Penguin” dance merrily over the rippling wavelets.1885, Alexander Stewart, ’Twixt Ben Nevis and Glencoe: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-Lore of the West Highlands, Edinburgh: William Paterson, Chapter 46, p. 336

Forms of lug-sail

plurallug-sails

Questions about lug-sail

What is lug-sail the alternative form of?
Lug-sail is the alternative form of lugsail.

Words near lug-sail in the dictionary

  1. lug bolts
  2. lug in
  3. lug nut
  4. lug nuts
  5. lug out
  6. lug-sail
  7. Luga
  8. lugada
  9. lugadas
  10. Lugait
  11. lugal

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