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lugger

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lug·ger  (lgr)
n.
A small boat used for fishing, sailing, or coasting and having two or three masts, each with a lugsail, and two or three jibs set on the bowsprit.
[From lugsail.]
lugger [ˈlʌgə]
n
(Transport / Nautical Terms) Nautical a small working boat rigged with a lugsail
[from lugsail]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.lugger - small fishing boat rigged with one or more lugsailslugger - small fishing boat rigged with one or more lugsails
boat - a small vessel for travel on water
lugsail, lug - a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast
Translations
lugger [ˈlʌgəʳ] N → lugre m
lugger
n → Logger m
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But the skilful manner in which Dantes had handled the lugger had entirely reassured him; and then, when he saw the light plume of smoke floating above the bastion of the Chateau d'If, and heard the distant report, he was instantly struck with the idea that he had on board his vessel one whose coming and going, like that of kings, was accompanied with salutes of artillery.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
A good many persons of the pension had gone over to the Cheniere Caminada in Beaudelet's lugger to hear mass.
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Some of the men who had been to field-work on the far side of the Admiral Benbow remembered, besides, to have seen several strangers on the road, and taking them to be smugglers, to have bolted away; and one at least had seen a little lugger in what we called Kitt's Hole.
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