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Demurrage :: Demurrage (n.) The detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing..

Wassail :: Wassail (v. i.) To hold a wassail; to carouse.

Portage :: Portage (n.) A sailor's wages when in port.

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

Yachting :: Yachting (n.) Sailing for pleasure in a yacht.

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

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

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..

Footrope :: Footrope (n.) That part of the boltrope to which the lower edge of a sail is sewed.

Barque :: Barque (n.) Formerly, any small sailing vessel, as a pinnace, fishing smack, etc.; also, a rowing boat; a barge. Now applied poetically to a sailing vessel or boat of any kind..

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..

Undersail :: Undersail (v. i.) To sail alongshore.

Argonauta :: Argonauta (n.) A genus of Cephalopoda. The shell is called paper nautilus or paper sailor.

Pricker :: Pricker (n.) A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking..

Woohoo :: Woohoo (n.) The sailfish.

Hoot :: Hoot (v. t.) To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts.

Tenable :: Tenable (a.) Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument..

Navigation :: Navigation (n.) The management of sails, rudder, etc.; the mechanics of traveling by water; seamanship..

Rigging :: Rigging (n.) DRess; tackle; especially (Naut.), the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a vessel, and serve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc. See Illustr. of Ship and Sails..

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