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Outsail :: Outsail (v. t.) To excel, or to leave behind, in sailing; to sail faster than..

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

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

Chapel :: Chapel (v. t.) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing..

Coaster :: Coaster (n.) A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade..

Forge :: Forge (v. t.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead..

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..

Beat :: Beat (v. i.) To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse..

Trim :: Trim (v. t.) To arrange in due order for sailing; as, to trim the sails..

Rove :: Rove (v. i.) Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise..

Assailing :: Assailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assai.

Assailant :: Assailant (a.) Assailing; attacking.

Aeronautics :: Aeronautics (n.) The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aerial navigation; ballooning..

Packet :: Packet (n.) Originally, a vessel employed by government to convey dispatches or mails; hence, a vessel employed in conveying dispatches, mails, passengers, and goods, and having fixed days of sailing; a mail boat..

Fetch :: Fetch (v. t.) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

Advertise :: Advertise (v. t.) To give public notice of; to announce publicly, esp. by a printed notice; as, to advertise goods for sale, a lost article, the sailing day of a vessel, a political meeting..

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

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

Coasting :: Coasting (a.) Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast..

Race :: Race (n.) Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races..

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