lugsail

plural lugsails

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

   Junks have a deck and high masts, most commonly three, with four-cornered, coarse cotton sails, called lugsails, braced flat by bamboo strips or battens.

   1993, Funk & Wagnalls Corporation, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, volume 15, page 139

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   1885, Alexander Stewart, ’Twixt Ben Nevis and Glencoe: The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-Lore of the West Highlands, Edinburgh: William Paterson, Chapter 46, p. 336, It was a bright afternoon, with just enough wind over the quarter to set our lugsail well abulge, and make our little “Penguin” dance merrily over the rippling wavelets.