ˈlug-sail
[Formation uncertain: perh. f. lug v. or lug n.2]
A four-cornered sail, bent upon a yard which is slung at about one-third or one-fourth of its length from one end, and so hangs obliquely. Also attrib.
| 1677 Lond. Gaz. No. 1194/4 She is open in the Midships, and sails with a Lugsail, and one Topsail. 1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Voile de Fortune, the square or lug sail of a galley or tartane. 1799 Naval Chron. I. 214 A lug-sail boat from Calais. 1892 Stevenson Across the Plains 212 The boats with their reefed lugsails scudding for the harbour mouth. |