| 单词 | lugsail |
| 例句 | Sink me lugsail parley flogging knave quarterdeck ballast. Prod-5806 Test 2019-06-28T04:00:00Z She rolled on the angry combers and the boom that stretched the lugsail's foot tossed up. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z Didn't you have a bright, varnished boat with a teak topstrake and a red standing lugsail? The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z There's a nice southwester blowing now, and under the big lugsail we ought to overhaul the canoe before he does so. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z She carried her full complement of oars, a mast, and lugsail. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z One could hardly see her low, gray hull, but the tanned lugsail cut sharply against the bank, and its slant and the splash of foam at the bows indicated speed. Partners of the Out-Trail It looked like certain death to leap into that lugsail. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland The lugsails were useless until the gorge was passed; and in the narrowed river the current swept down with doubled velocity, making the stout oars crack as the seamen bent their backs to offset it. Gold Out of Celebes The light was growing each moment, the breeze dying fast, and presently the damp lugsail slatted against the mast. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z Somebody was carrying a light on her deck, and the giant shadow of a man's figure was cast up on the new lugsail. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 He has set the little black lugsail and the wind's fair. Partners of the Out-Trail He was right: the lugsail was careering out to us and came alongside at length, and, after fearful trouble, got fastened to the Fingal. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland These boats carry one lugsail on a mast shipped well amidships. Heroes of the Goodwin Sands The lugsail rustled down, the mast was lowered. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z The French for lugsail is voile de fortune, and a still earlier name, which occurs also in Tudor English, is bonaventure, i.e., good luck. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) Smartly he ran up a small lugsail, and set his boat's head towards the stranger. Adventures in Many Lands On one occasion, in the West Highlands, I availed myself of a lugsail ferry to cross an arm of the sea and so avoid a long détour by land. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland In the evening they worked away, making the three lugsails, the topsail, and a small fore-staysail. The Rival Crusoes That evening, however, when halfway home, a squall suddenly struck our own lightened boat, which was rigged with one large lugsail, and capsized her. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell The explanation of lugsail as a sail that is lugged seems to be a piece of folk-etymology. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) We felt about, and found a lugsail and an oar. The Mate of the Lily Notes from Harry Musgrave's Log Book Brown lugsails were run up on the smaller boats. Priscilla's Spies We hoisted our two lugsails, with a small jib on the bowsprit, which had been rigged ahead, and the raft feeling its effects, glided over the surface. In the Eastern Seas It has got out of the set of the tide and has the wind well abeam, just the thing for that lugsail she carries.” The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land The origin of lugger is unknown, but the word is recorded a century later than lugsail, whence it is probably derived. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) Another boat was seized and brought into Dover with hollow yards to her lugsails, and a hollow keel composed of tin but painted to look like wood, capable of holding large quantities of spirits. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 The gig carried a small mast and lugsail, and, the faint wind blowing fair down the creek, the Captain suggested our hoisting them. Poison Island In a short time a breeze sprang up, when we hoisted our little lugsail, and skimmed merrily over the water, just rippled into wavelets by the brisk breeze. In the Eastern Seas There was something of a breeze, and they hoisted a lugsail so that they should run out to meet the steamer. Macleod of Dare Lug-sail after lugsail, brown as the underside of a mushroom, hurries out among the waves. The Pleasures of Ignorance The Admiral Hood was a small dandy-rigged fore-and-after, that is to say, she was a cutter with a small mizzen on which she would set a lugsail. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 She carried a single mast, which listed forward; her lugsail was stretched upon dozens of bamboo yards; she drew hardly any water. Moran of the Lady Letty We then discovered a lugsail, which had belonged to one of the ship's boats; this we hoisted; and our craft was ready to sail. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 3 The great bulk of the steamer soon floated away, and the lugsail was run up again, and the boat made slowly back for Castle Dare. Macleod of Dare The day was beautifully fine, and to Harry's surprise he found that those on deck had already lowered the great lugsails. In the Reign of Terror She was found to be a 54-foot galley—a tremendous length for an oared craft—with no deck, and rigged with three lugsails and jib, her size working out at about 11 tons burthen. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 The same afternoon the Swallow chased a large lugsail boat, with fourteen hands in her, and supposed to belong to the Kent. King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 Then he could make out the dark figures on the quay, and the hoisting of the lugsail, and the putting off of the boat. Macleod of Dare "Keep her close up, sir," said the man who had the sheet of the huge lugsail in both his hands, as he cast a glance out at the darkening sea. Macleod of Dare |
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