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Sail :: Sail (n.) To be conveyed in a vessel on water; to pass by water; as, they sailed from London to Canton..

Head :: Head (n.) The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an animal; often, also, the larger, thicker, or heavier part or extremity, in distinction from the smaller or thinner part, or from the point or edge; as, the head of a cane, a nail, a spear, an ax, a mast, a sail, a ship; that which covers and closes the top or the end of a hollow vessel; as, the head of a cask or a steam boiler..

Landsman :: Landsman (n.) A sailor on his first voyage.

Reef-band :: Reef-band (n.) A piece of canvas sewed across a sail to strengthen it in the part where the eyelet holes for reefing are made.

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

Sea Pie :: Sea pie () A dish of crust or pastry and meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, -- a common food of sailors; as, a three-decker sea pie..

Bepommel :: Bepommel (v. t.) To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing..

Tender :: Tender (superl.) Heeling over too easily when under sail; -- said of a vessel.

Hand :: Hand (v. t.) To furl; -- said of a sail.

Bellyband :: Bellyband (n.) A band of canvas, to strengthen a sail..

Foresail :: Foresail (n.) The gaff sail set on the foremast of a schooner.

Drop :: Drop (n.) The depth of a square sail; -- generally applied to the courses only.

Bonnet :: Bonnet (n.) An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds.

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

Luff :: Luff (v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind.

Sailboat :: Sailboat (n.) A boat propelled by a sail or sails.

Ahull :: Ahull (adv.) With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n..

Bunt :: Bunt (v. i.) To swell out; as, the sail bunts..

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

Full-blown :: Full-blown (a.) Fully distended with wind, as a sail..

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