LUGGER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lugger mean? 

• LUGGER (noun)
  The noun LUGGER has 1 sense:

1. small fishing boat rigged with one or more lugsails

  Familiarity information: LUGGER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUGGER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small fishing boat rigged with one or more lugsails

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("lugger" is a kind of...):

boat (a small vessel for travel on water)

Meronyms (parts of "lugger"):

lug; lugsail (a sail with four corners that is hoisted from a yard that is oblique to the mast)

 Context examples 

Soon after, the lugger doubled the point and disappeared.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Had it not been for a lugger which I specially hired to smuggle them, I might have been reduced to English tan.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Over the little mantelshelf, was a picture of the Sarah Jane lugger, built at Sunderland, with a real little wooden stern stuck on to it; a work of art, combining composition with carpentry, which I considered to be one of the most enviable possessions that the world could afford.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

These fellows who attacked the inn tonight—bold, desperate blades, for sure—and the rest who stayed aboard that lugger, and more, I dare say, not far off, are, one and all, through thick and thin, bound that they'll get that money.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

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.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

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.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

In the meantime the supervisor rode on, as fast as he could, to Kitt's Hole; but his men had to dismount and grope down the dingle, leading, and sometimes supporting, their horses, and in continual fear of ambushes; so it was no great matter for surprise that when they got down to the Hole the lugger was already under way, though still close in.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)