Definitions for lugsail

lugsail lug·sail

Spelling: [luhg-seyl; Nautical luhg-suh l]
IPA: /ˈlʌgˌseɪl; Nautical ˈlʌg səl/

Lugsail is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 123 anagrams from letters in lugsail (agillsu).

Definitions for lugsail

noun

  1. a quadrilateral sail bent upon a yard that crosses the mast obliquely.

Origin of lugsail

1670-80; Middle English lugge pole (now dial.; cf. log1) + sail

Examples for lugsail

She carried a single mast, which listed forward; her lugsail was stretched upon dozens of bamboo yards; she drew hardly any water.

She carried her full complement of oars, a mast, and lugsail.

These boats carry one lugsail on a mast shipped well amidships.

We got back to Lerwick in a lugsail that was full of passengers, potatoes, and milk-cans.

Marston had had the lugsail and jib made in England by a famous yacht-chandler, and the boat was fast.

The peak of her lugsail is cut very high, and her mast, yard, and boom are very light and workmanlike.

This will be only a small expense, since the great peak of the lugsail will allow of its head being squared.

They have very little gear with the lugsail rig, and the decks are always clear.

She began to hoist her lugsail in a dazed, shiftless fashion, while our two boats drifted slowly to leeward.

She rolled on the angry combers and the boom that stretched the lugsail's foot tossed up.

Word Value for lugsail
Scrable

8

Words with friends

12

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