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Fore-topgallant :: Fore-topgallant (a.) Designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. See Sail..

Sail :: Sail (n.) A sailing vessel; a vessel of any kind; a craft.

Luff :: Luff (n.) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.

Schoolship :: Schoolship (n.) A vessel employed as a nautical training school, in which naval apprentices receive their education at the expense of the state, and are trained for service as sailors. Also, a vessel used as a reform school to which boys are committed by the courts to be disciplined, and instructed as mariners..

Aeronautics :: Aeronautics (n.) The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aerial navigation; ballooning..

Sailless :: Sailless (a.) Destitute of sails.

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

Pelt :: Pelt (v. t.) To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail..

Slab :: Slab (n.) The slack part of a sail.

Bull''s-eye :: Bull's-eye (n.) A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm..

Tarpaulin :: Tarpaulin (n.) A hat made of, or covered with, painted or tarred cloth, worn by sailors and others..

Range :: Range (n.) To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near; as, to range the coast..

Frigate :: Frigate (n.) Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war vessels intermediate between corvettes and ships of the line. Frigates, from about 1750 to 1850, had one full battery deck and, often, a spar deck with a lighter battery. They carried sometimes as many as fifty guns. After the application of steam to navigation steam frigates of largely incre

Forereach :: Forereach (v. t.) To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.

Unfurl :: Unfurl (v. t. & i.) To loose from a furled state; to unfold; to expand; to open or spread; as, to unfurl sails; to unfurl a flag..

Kite :: Kite (n.) A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light..

Yachter :: Yachter (n.) One engaged in sailing a jacht.

Mistico :: Mistico (n.) A kind of small sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean. It is rigged partly like a xebec, and partly like a felucca..

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..

Unlace :: Unlace (v. t.) To loose, and take off, as a bonnet from a sail, or to cast off, as any lacing in any part of the rigging of a vessel..

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