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Wassail :: Wassail (n.) An ancient expression of good wishes on a festive occasion, especially in drinking to some one..

Threaden :: Threaden (a.) Made of thread; as, threaden sails; a threaden fillet..

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..

Jackstay :: "Jackstay (n.) A rail of wood or iron stretching along a yard of a vessel, to which the sails are fastened..

Atrip :: Atrip (adv.) Sheeted home, hoisted taut up and ready for trimming; -- said of sails..

Cruise :: Cruise (v. i.) To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure..

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

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

Pungy :: Pungy (n.) A small sloop or shallop, or a large boat with sails..

Hearty :: Hearty (n.) Comrade; boon companion; good fellow; -- a term of familiar address and fellowship among sailors.

Spinner :: Spinnaker (n.) A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind..

Wung-out :: Wung-out (a.) Having the sails set in the manner called wing-and-wing.

Foresail :: Foresail (n.) The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast..

Water Sail :: Water sail () A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water..

Sail :: Sail (v. t.) To fly through; to glide or move smoothly through.

Wing :: Wing (n.) Anything which agitates the air as a wing does, or which is put in winglike motion by the action of the air, as a fan or vane for winnowing grain, the vane or sail of a windmill, etc..

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..

Foresail :: Foresail (n.) The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast..

Canoe :: Canoe (n.) A light pleasure boat, especially designed for use by one who goes alone upon long excursions, including portage. It it propelled by a paddle, or by a small sail attached to a temporary mast..

Navigate :: Navigate (v. t.) To pass over in ships; to sail over or on; as, to navigate the Atlantic..

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