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lugger
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tags: [nautical]
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Definition:a class of boat, widely used as traditional fishing boats, particularly off the coasts of France, England and Scotland. It is a small sailing vessel with lug sails set on two or more masts and perhaps lug topsails.text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
painting: By Gustave Courbet (around 1875), https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=81753
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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 news of the lugger in Kitt's Hole had found its way to Supervisor Dance and set him forth that night in our direction, and to that circumstance my mother and I owed our preservation from death.
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island (1883)
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