[perh. f. lug in LUG-SAIL; but cf. Du. logger, perh. f. MDu. loggen, luggen to fish with a drag-net.] (See quot. 1867.)
1795. Hull Advertiser, 25 July, 2/1.
1809. J. Adams, Wks. (1854), IX. 317. In a general impressment … it cost the nation, in cutters, luggers, press-gangs,… a hundred pounds for every man they obtained.
1817. W. Irving, in Life & Lett. (1864), I. 385. He … is as slow getting under way, as a Dutch lugger.
1837. Marryat, Dog-fiend, xxx. The lugger pulled eighteen oars, was clinker built, and very swift.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Lugger, a small vessel with … four-cornered cut sails, set fore and aft, and [sic] may have two or three masts.
1884. Pae, Eustace, 217. I am captain of the lugger you see yonder.
b. attrib. (appositive) and Comb.
1801. Nelson, in A. Duncan, Life (1806), 194. Flats (lugger-rigged).
1819. J. H. Vaux, Mem., I. 70. A beautiful French lugger privateer, of fourteen guns.
