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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...
- people forced to work on the pearl luggers. The boats used for pearling from the 1870s, known as pearling luggers, were unique to Australia. There were...
- Lugger may refer to: Lugger, a type of small sailing vessel Alexander Lugger (b. 1968), Austrian ski mountaineer 7723 Lugger, a Mars-crossing asteroid...
- Alexander Lugger (born 8 May 1968) is an Austrian ski mountaineer and coach of the national team. Lugger was born in Lienz. He started ski mountaineering...
- 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...
- The name derives from the boats used for pearling, known as pearling luggers. Its words come primarily from the Malay language (specifically Kupang...
- 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...
- 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...
- Otto Lugger (16 September 1844 – 21 May 1901) was an American entomologist and botanist who served as the State Entomologist of the U.S. State of Minnesota...
- Mystery was a Mount's Bay lugger which made a voyage to Australia in 1854/55. Her p****age to Cape Town was so fast that she was commissioned to take mail...