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Commander :: Commander (n.) A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc..

Ropeband :: Ropeband (n.) A small piece of spun yarn or marline, used to fasten the head of the sail to the spar..

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

Aeronautical :: Aeronautical (a.) Pertaining to aeronautics, or aerial sailing..

Assail :: Assail (v. t.) To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by words, hostile influence, etc.; as, to assail one with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like..

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

Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee..

Touch :: Touch (v. i.) To be brought, as a sail, so close to the wind that its weather leech shakes..

Hoist :: Hoist (v. t.) To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight..

Headrope :: Headrope (n.) That part of a boltrope which is sewed to the upper edge or head of a sail.

Seafarer :: Seafarer (n.) One who follows the sea as a business; a mariner; a sailor.

Spanker :: Spanker (n.) The after sail of a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; -- sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail..

Scoff :: Scoff (v. t.) To treat or address with derision; to assail scornfully; to mock at.

Beating :: Beating (n.) The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.

Cruise :: Cruise (n.) A voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel, for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure..

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..

Spritsail :: Spritsail (n.) A sail extended by a sprit.

Whip :: Whip (v. t.) One of the arms or frames of a windmill, on which the sails are spread..

Rowboat :: Rowboat (n.) A boat designed to be propelled by oars instead of sails.

Salt :: Salt (n.) A sailor; -- usually qualified by old.

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