请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 lugger
释义

Definition of lugger in English:

lugger

noun ˈlʌɡəˈləɡər
  • A small sailing ship with two or three masts and a lugsail on each.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • My father had visited the Barrier Reef in 1932 while investigating sugar tariffs and bounties, and a Proserpine sugar-grower had lent him a lugger and crew.
    • In shelters on nearby Castle Peak there are similar paintings: of a steam ship, and a detailed image of a lugger, identifiable as the Mildred, towing a dinghy.
    • He maintained a 30 ton lugger which he used to rescue shipwrecked sailors off the coast within sight of his home on the cliffs at Ramsgate, while also supplementing his income with salvage operations.
    • The Princess Royal told the couple to ‘carry on building their lovely safe boats’ and officially named one of the couple's Devon luggers, which will be used by disabled sailing group, Queen Mary Sailability.
    • We'd like to have a pearling lugger taking passengers from the front door basically out experiencing those aspects of that industry while we have the pearling industry exhibits inside the building.
    • They also built European-style luggers and skiffs, and the pirogue, based on Indian dugout canoes.
    • Air came from a pump manned by a tender on the jetty above (or the lugger, if it went out to sea).
    • During World War II, when aged 16, he piloted converted pearling luggers carrying personnel and stores through the numerous isles and inlets near his tribal home.
    • Hundreds of wooden luggers once plied the northern coast from Cossack to Cairns.
    • The response over the captain of the wrecked lugger is one example.
    • Several lighter vessels and pearling luggers were sunk or wrecked.
    • Forget all the sailing ships, the sloops, brigs, schooners and luggers lost here, and concentrate on the steamships.
    • But we can only wonder whether the dark shapes below our dinghy are marine life or the ghostly remains of pearling luggers and guano sailing ships wrecked by cyclones around the turn of last century.
    • Mary Dakas (nee Paspalis) became Australia's only Greek female pearl lugger operator.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from lugsail + -er1.

Rhymes

hugger, mugger, plugger, rugger, slugger, Srinagar, tugger
 
 

Definition of lugger in US English:

lugger

nounˈləɡərˈləɡər
  • A small sailing ship with two or three masts and a lugsail on each.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The response over the captain of the wrecked lugger is one example.
    • They also built European-style luggers and skiffs, and the pirogue, based on Indian dugout canoes.
    • Mary Dakas (nee Paspalis) became Australia's only Greek female pearl lugger operator.
    • Air came from a pump manned by a tender on the jetty above (or the lugger, if it went out to sea).
    • Several lighter vessels and pearling luggers were sunk or wrecked.
    • But we can only wonder whether the dark shapes below our dinghy are marine life or the ghostly remains of pearling luggers and guano sailing ships wrecked by cyclones around the turn of last century.
    • In shelters on nearby Castle Peak there are similar paintings: of a steam ship, and a detailed image of a lugger, identifiable as the Mildred, towing a dinghy.
    • My father had visited the Barrier Reef in 1932 while investigating sugar tariffs and bounties, and a Proserpine sugar-grower had lent him a lugger and crew.
    • During World War II, when aged 16, he piloted converted pearling luggers carrying personnel and stores through the numerous isles and inlets near his tribal home.
    • The Princess Royal told the couple to ‘carry on building their lovely safe boats’ and officially named one of the couple's Devon luggers, which will be used by disabled sailing group, Queen Mary Sailability.
    • Hundreds of wooden luggers once plied the northern coast from Cossack to Cairns.
    • We'd like to have a pearling lugger taking passengers from the front door basically out experiencing those aspects of that industry while we have the pearling industry exhibits inside the building.
    • Forget all the sailing ships, the sloops, brigs, schooners and luggers lost here, and concentrate on the steamships.
    • He maintained a 30 ton lugger which he used to rescue shipwrecked sailors off the coast within sight of his home on the cliffs at Ramsgate, while also supplementing his income with salvage operations.

Origin

Mid 18th century: from lugsail + -er.

 
 
随便看

 

英语词典包含464360条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/11/10 8:04:15