: a small fishing or coasting boat that carries one or more lugsails
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Recent Examples on the WebThe 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.—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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