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Sail :: Sail (n.) To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by the action of steam or other power..

Water Dog :: Water dog () A sailor, esp. an old sailor; an old salt..

Voyage :: Voyage (v. i.) To take a voyage; especially, to sail or pass by water..

Sail :: Sail (v. t.) To direct or manage the motion of, as a vessel; as, to sail one's own ship..

Kid :: Kid (n.) A small wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food.

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

Besaile :: Besaile (n.) Alt. of Besayl.

Pass :: Pass (v. t.) To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure..

Shipman :: Shipman (n.) A seaman, or sailor..

Run :: Run (n.) The distance sailed by a ship; as, a good run; a run of fifty miles..

Pea-jacket :: Pea-jacket (n.) A thick loose woolen jacket, or coat, much worn by sailors in cold weather..

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see Illust. of Sail)..

Clearer :: Clearer (n.) A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished..

Closereefed :: Closereefed (a.) Having all the reefs taken in; -- said of a sail.

Scud :: Scud (v. i.) To be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread..

Proa :: Proa (n.) A sailing canoe of the Ladrone Islands and Malay Archipelago, having its lee side flat and its weather side like that of an ordinary boat. The ends are alike. The canoe is long and narrow, and is kept from overturning by a cigar-shaped log attached to a frame extending several feet to windward. It has been called the flying proa, and is the swiftest sailing craft known..

Wung-out :: Wung-out (a.) Having the sails set in the manner called wing-and-wing.

Latching :: Latching (n.) A loop or eye formed on the head rope of a bonnet, by which it is attached to the foot of a sail; -- called also latch and lasket..

Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet..

Southwestern :: Southwestern (a.) Of or pertaining to the southwest; southwesterly; as, to sail a southwestern course..

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