lugger

American  

[luhg-er] / ˈlʌg ər /

noun

Nautical.

1. a small ship lug-rigged on two or three masts.

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lugger British  

/ ˈlʌɡə /

noun

1. nautical a small working boat rigged with a lugsail

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Etymology

Origin of lugger

First recorded in 1785–95; lug(sail) + -er ¹

Example Sentences

But I’d guess that, like me — smartphone addict, laptop lugger, owner of an electric car — you had no idea just how bad.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2023

"Oh, it was a fine and pleasant day/ Out of Yarmouth harbour I was faring/ As a cabin boy on a sailing lugger/ For to go and hunt the shoals of herring," he sings.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2014

Adam Kerr, the skipper of a restored 19th Century Cornish fishing lugger, the Barnabas, sailed 400 nautical miles to take part.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2012

His daughter married one Salvador D'Antoni who sailed a lugger on the river.

From Time Magazine Archive

It took Victor some little time to comprehend that she had come in Beaudelet’s lugger, that she had come alone, and for no purpose but to rest.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin