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Coasting :: Coasting (n.) A sailing along a coast, or from port to port; a carrying on a coasting trade..

Ataunto :: Ataunto (adv.) Fully rigged, as a vessel; with all sails set; set on end or set right..

Gallivat :: Gallivat (n.) A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, -- used on the Malabar coast..

Reef :: Reef (v. t.) To reduce the extent of (as a sail) by roiling or folding a certain portion of it and making it fast to the yard or spar.

Calenture :: Calenture (n.) A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it..

Sailmaker :: Sailmaker (n.) One whose occupation is to make or repair sails.

Trinket :: Trinket (n.) A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard..

Galiot :: Galiot (n.) A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers..

Stunted :: Stunsail (n.) A contraction of Studding sail.

Topgallant :: Topgallant (n.) A topgallant mast or sail.

Full-blown :: Full-blown (a.) Fully distended with wind, as a sail..

Regatta :: Regatta (n.) Originally, a gondola race in Venice; now, a rowing or sailing race, or a series of such races..

Circumnavigate :: Circumnavigate (v. t.) To sail completely round.

Spanker :: Spanker (n.) The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail..

Voyager :: Voyager (n.) One who voyages; one who sails or passes by sea or water.

Downhaul :: Downhaul (n.) A rope to haul down, or to assist in hauling down, a sail; as, a staysail downhaul; a trysail downhaul..

Near :: Near (prep.) Adjacent to; close by; not far from; nigh; as, the ship sailed near the land. See the Note under near, a..

Sheet :: Sheet (v. t.) A rope or chain which regulates the angle of adjustment of a sail in relation in relation to the wind; -- usually attached to the lower corner of a sail, or to a yard or a boom..

Sheet :: Sheet (v. t.) A sail.

Shiver :: Shiver (v. t.) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind..

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