lugger

Plural: luggers

Noun

• A small sailing vessel equipped with a lugsail or lugsails.
• small fishing boat rigged with one or more lugsails
• That which lugs in either literal or figurative senses.
• One who lugs, especially one whose job entails pulling or moving heavy objects.
• A conman.
• A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.
• A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails.
• An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon.

Examples

• pearling lugger
• The ’LUGGER’ word sailed onto the triple-word score, carrying a hefty sum of points.

Synonyms

picker-up, roper, runner, steerer