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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..

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

Sailer :: Sailer (n.) A ship or other vessel; -- with qualifying words descriptive of speed or manner of sailing; as, a heavy sailer; a fast sailer..

Master :: Master (n.) The commander of a merchant vessel; -- usually called captain. Also, a commissioned officer in the navy ranking next above ensign and below lieutenant; formerly, an officer on a man-of-war who had immediate charge, under the commander, of sailing the vessel..

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

Scout :: Scout (n.) A swift sailing boat.

Loxodromic :: Loxodromic (a.) Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables..

Orthodromy :: Orthodromy (n.) The act or art of sailing on a great circle.

Regatta :: Regatta (n.) Originally, a gondola race in Venice; now, a rowing or sailing race, or a series of such races..

West :: West (n.) The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident..

Dromon :: Dromon () In the Middle Ages, a large, fast-sailing galley, or cutter; a large, swift war vessel..

Smack :: Smack (n.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade..

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..

Ballahou :: Ballahou (n.) A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies..

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

Orthodromics :: Orthodromics (n.) The art of sailing in a direct course, or on the arc of a great circle, which is the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of the globe; great-circle sailing; orthodromy..

Closehauled :: Closehauled (a.) Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.

Felucca :: Felucca (n.) A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails, -- once common in the Mediterranean..

Flanker :: Flanker (n.) One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body..

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

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