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lugsail

Noun

lug=sail

WORDNET DICTIONARY

lugsail(n = noun.artifact) lug - a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast; Array

is a kind of fore-and-aft sail

is a part of junk, lugger

lugsail, n.

A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail. Totten. [1913 Webster]

lugsail, n. Naut. a quadrilateral sail which is bent on and hoisted from a yard.

Etymology

prob. f. LUG(2)

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