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Definition of Luggers

Lugger
Lugger Lug"ger, n. (Naut.) A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails. See Illustration in Appendix. --Totten.
Lugger
Lugger Lug"ger, n. (Zo["o]l.) An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.

Meaning of Luggers from wikipedia

- A lugger is a sailing vessel defined by its rig, using the lug sail on all of its one or more masts. Luggers were widely used as working craft, particularly...
- divers on pearl luggers operating out of Broome. Soon the ****anese divers came to dominate the industry. By 1910, nearly 400 pearling luggers and more than...
- Lugger may refer to: Lugger, a type of small sailing vessel Alexander Lugger (b. 1968), Austrian ski mountaineer 7723 Lugger, a Mars-crossing asteroid...
- boats. It was these larger luggers that would carry a replacement anchor out to a ship in the Downs. The smaller luggers were called "cats", able to...
- to remove or lift the tea cosy. A special tea cosy is the so-called tea lugger, which enables the hot teapot to be carried around easily. Tea cosies may...
- almost completed an open boat cir****navigation of the world in his two Luggers Chidiock Tichborne I and Chidiock Tichborne II. He started the trip in...
- The name derives from the boats used for pearling, known as pearling luggers. Its words come primarily from the Malay language (specifically Kupang...
- Papers January 1974 p 76 Lovers and Luggers in the Internet Movie Database Lovers and Luggers at Australian Screen Online Lovers and Luggers at Oz Movies...
- were used as mother ships to the luggers. S**** was usually opened on the mother vessels rather than on the luggers, in order to secure any pearls found...
- The Affronteur class consisted of two 16-gun luggers that Michel Colin-Olivier laid down at Dieppe in August 1794 and that he launched in 1795 for the...