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Mizzen :: Mizzen (n.) The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker..

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

Main Yard :: Main yard () The yard on which the mainsail is extended, supported by the mainmast..

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

Scouse :: Scouse (n.) A sailor's dish. Bread scouse contains no meat; lobscouse contains meat, etc. See Lobscouse..

Call :: Call (n.) A whistle or pipe, used by the boatswain and his mate, to summon the sailors to duty..

Driver :: Driver (n.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker..

Aggressor :: Aggressor (n.) The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.

Slatting :: Slatting (n.) The violent shaking or flapping of anything hanging loose in the wind, as of a sail, when being hauled down..

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

Velivolant :: Velivolant (a.) Flying with sails; passing under full sail.

Jigger :: "Jigger (n. & v.) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle..

Sail :: Sail (n.) The extended surface of the arm of a windmill.

Sailing :: Sailing (n.) The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation; as, globular sailing; oblique sailing..

Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be inflated; to belly; as, the sails swell..

Seagoing :: Seagoing (a.) Going upon the sea; especially, sailing upon the deep sea; -- used in distinction from coasting or river, as applied to vessels..

Impugn :: Impugn (v. t.) To attack by words or arguments; to contradict; to assail; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose.

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

Amain :: Amain (v. i.) To lower the topsail, in token of surrender; to yield..

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

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