ler than the
fore and main yard-tackles or the stay-tackles. (_See_ LUFF UPON LUFF.)

LUFF UPON LUFF. One luff-tackle applied to the fall of another, to
afford an increase of purchase.

LUG. The _Arenicola piscatorum_, a sand-worm much used for bait. Also,
of old, the term for a perch or rod used in land-measuring, containing
16-1/2 feet, and which may have originated the word _log_.

LUGAR [Sp.] A name for watering-places on the Spanish coast.

LUG-BOAT. The fine Deal boats which brave the severest weather; they are
rigged as luggers, and dip the yards in tacking. They really constitute
a large description of life-boat.

LUGGER. A small vessel with quadrilateral or four-cornered cut sails,
set fore-and-aft, and may have two or three masts. French coasters
usually rig thus, and are called _chasse marees_; but with us it is
confined to fishing craft and ships' boats; some carry top-sails. During
the war of 1810 to 1814 French luggers, as well as Guernsey privateers,
were as large as 300 tons, and carried 18 guns. One captured inside the
Needles in 1814, carried a mizen-topsail. The _Long Bet_ of Plymouth, a
well-known smuggler, long defied the Channel gropers, but was taken in
1816.

LUGS. The ears of a bomb-shell, to which the hooks are applied in
lifting it.

LUG-SAIL. A sail used in boats and small vessels. It is in form like a
gaff-sail, but depends entirely on the rope of the luff for its
stability. The yard is two-thirds of the breadth at foot, and is slung
at one-fourth from the luff. On the mast is an iron hoop or traveller,
to which it is hoisted. The tack may be to windward, or at the heel of
the mast amidships. It is powerful, but has the inconvenience of
requiring to be lowered and shifted on the mast at every tack, unless
the tack be secured amidships. Much used in the barca-longa, navigated
by the Spaniards.

LULL. The brief interval of moderate weather between the gusts of wind
in a gale. Also, an abatement in the violence of surf.

LULL-BAG. A wide canvas hose in whalers for conducting blubber into the
casks, as it is "made off."

LUMBER. Logs as they arrive at the mills. Also, timber of any size,
sawed or split for use. Also, things stowed without order.

LUMBERER. One who cuts timber (generally in gangs) in the forests of
North America during the winter, and, on the melting of the snow,
navigates it, first by stream-driving the separate logs down the spring
torrents, then in bays or small