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Smack :: Smack (n.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade..

Spill :: Spill (v. t.) To relieve a sail from the pressure of the wind, so that it can be more easily reefed or furled, or to lessen the strain..

Assailer :: Assailer (n.) One who assails.

Yellowtail :: Yellowtail (n.) The sailor's choice (Diplodus rhomboides).

Sea Captain :: Sea captain () The captain of a vessel that sails upon the sea.

Hooker :: Hooker (n.) A sailor's contemptuous term for any antiquated craft.

Assaulter :: Assaulter (n.) One who assaults, or violently attacks; an assailant..

Trysail :: Trysail (n.) A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer..

Closereefed :: Closereefed (a.) Having all the reefs taken in; -- said of a sail.

Trick :: Trick (a.) A turn; specifically, the spell of a sailor at the helm, -- usually two hours..

Gang :: Gang (v. i.) A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails..

Bend :: Bend (v. t.) To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor..

Mariner :: Mariner (n.) One whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships; a seaman or sailor.

Ramble :: Ramble (v. i.) To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world..

Drogue :: Drogue (n.) See Drag, n., 6, and Drag sail, under Drag, n..

Landsman :: Landsman (n.) A sailor on his first voyage.

Synecdochical :: Synecdoche (n.) A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc..

Coast :: Coast (n.) To sail from port to port in the same country.

Hank :: Hank (n.) A ring or eye of rope, wood, or iron, attached to the edge of a sail and running on a stay..

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