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: a small fishing or coasting boat that carries one or more lugsails
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The upshot will be a mid-sized load-lugger that will hammers to 62mph in 3.6 seconds and from zero to 124mph in only 12.9 seconds, so the Europeans had better pack that luggage in snugly.
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Michael Taylor, Forbes, 22 June 2022
The wooden boats competed in skiff, workboat, lugger, trawler, runabout, sailboat and cruiser classes.
—Ann Benoit, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
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Michael Taylor, Forbes, 22 June 2022
The wooden boats competed in skiff, workboat, lugger, trawler, runabout, sailboat and cruiser classes.
—Ann Benoit, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
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“Lugger.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lugger. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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lugger
noun
lug·ger
ˈləg-ər 
: a boat that carries one or more lugsails
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