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lugsail

NOUN
  1. a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast

How To Use lugsail In A Sentence

  • Sails named for parts of the ship include gaff sails, jib-headed sails, spritsails, and lateen and lugsails.
  • And then, in short jerks, a grey, ragged, patched old lugsail, far too small for the boat, rose cockeye to the masthead. Coot Club
  • Princess gybed neatly enough; the big lugsails flapped thunderously for a moment and then as the sheets were eased off she lay over close hauled on the other tack. Hornblower And The Crisis
  • The lugsails are arranged in a tetrahedral, that is, each of the four lugsails is oriented exactly 109.47 degrees from the other three. 365 tomorrows » 2008 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
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