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lugger::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | boat |
Examples of lugger
lugger
As a refined load-lugger, there is not much to fault it on longer cruising journeys.
From the express.co.uk
We pit the Hyundai i30 wagon against the Kia Rondo and Mazda6 load lugger.
From the smh.com.au
He put the 32-tonne lugger on the deck of a ship at Thursday Island and took it to Cairns.
From the couriermail.com.au
But the Commodore load-lugger would be a worthy successor to an XR6T.
From the smh.com.au
The lugger has been very much a workhorse of the sea, but it already has tasted movie stardom.
From the couriermail.com.au
Two years later he bought the lugger and set it on a fresh course in life, cruising on Darwin Harbour.
From the couriermail.com.au
Rather surprisingly, this is no lazy lugger.
From the newarkadvertiser.co.uk
It's a very appealing load-lugger to look at.
From the cars.uk.msn.com
It's also not intended to be a load-lugger.
From the cars.uk.msn.com
- Small fishing boat rigged with one or more lugsails
- A lugger is a type of small sailing vessel setting lugsails on two or more masts and perhaps lug topsails.
- 35 feet x 13 feet typical ratio, up to 50 feet length, round bottomed; hour-glass transom and center board if powered by sail; rounded fantail transom typical of motorized boats.
- A swift and weatherly craft used for coastal trading and fishing, usually with two masts.
- A small ship rigged with one or more lugsails on two or three masts, and usually one, two or three jibs were set on the bowsprit. Luggers usually outperformed square-rigged vessels in coastal tideways but required a larger crew then a square-rigged vessel of similar size. ...
- A large, single-masted sailing vessel, capable of carrying fifteen to twenty people, used around the old pearl fisheries. Also called a boutre.
- A vessel with four-cornered sails, rigged fore and aft.
- A vessel having either two or three masts, two or three jibs and a running bowsprit, the masts carrying each one or two lug-sails.
- An old, slow cargo vessel.
