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lugger

noun

Definition of lugger

as in schooner

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Recent Examples of lugger From time to time, Li Shan would offer Noe a sum impressive to a fisherman to sail his lugger—a forty-foot vessel made for the shallower waters of home into the Gulf to meet a ship bound for New Orleans. — Literary Hub, 16 July 2026 The excess metal goes into roll off boxes or lugger boxes at the customer's factory. — Susan Tompor, Freep.com, 3 July 2025 One of the luggers offered her the pick of the litter but warned against some old chairs. — Jake Offenhartz, New Yorker, 21 Apr. 2025 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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Noun

Harry Kane’s schooner sails well wide of all that poofterish fluff with buckles and straps.

— Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Set in Massachusetts in 1858, the novel tells the story of a 15-year-old boy who gets trapped aboard a schooner as it gets hijacked.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of schooner

Noun

Sailing aboard a 30-foot sloop on Acapulco Bay, Henry Kissinger kept a protective arm around his new wife, as a motorboat filled with the press corps followed.

— Robert D. Mcfadden, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2026
Just two days after the Hannah was underway, her crew captured the Unity, a sloop loaded with naval stores and lumber, supplies sorely needed by British forces in Boston.

— Christopher Magra, The Conversation, 2 June 2026

Definition of sloop

Noun

The Continental brigantine Andrew Doria arrived carrying a copy of the Declaration of Independence and flying the Continental Colors – the predecessor of the stars and stripes.

— R. Grant Gilmore III, The Conversation, 30 June 2026
On December 4, 1872, sailors aboard the Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia spotted a ship named the Mary Celeste in the distance.

— Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024

Definition of brigantine

Noun

The system completed a year of testing aboard the German frigate Sachsen, during which its tracking, command, and engagement technologies were evaluated under maritime conditions.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Sep. 2026
Taiwan’s destroyers and frigates, many of which are based on 50-year-old American designs, are well understood and therefore institutionally safe choices.

— HOLMES LIAO, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of frigate

Noun

Brady hasn’t been linked to anyone in a hot minute and was recently seen on his mega yacht near his Indian Creek Village mansion solo.

— Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026
Optimal Transit puts an all-in VITAL vessel at about US$587 million, roughly the same amount as or less than the price of Jeff Bezos’s data-center-less, non-freshwater-producing luxury yacht.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of yacht

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