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lugsails

lugsails is the plural 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

Questions about lugsails

What is lugsails the plural of?
Lugsails is the plural of lugsail.

Words near lugsails in the dictionary

  1. lugows
  2. lugs
  3. lugs in
  4. lugs out
  5. lugsail
  6. lugsails
  7. Lugsden
  8. lugsill
  9. lugsills
  10. lugsome
  11. Lugton

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