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Boom
noun · 78% connection
A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, e…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, boom, spar, projects, over.
Bottomry
noun · 78% connection
A contract in the nature of a mortgage, by which the owner of a ship, or the master as his agent, hypothecates and binds the ship (and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, boom, spar, projects, over.
Bumkin
noun · 78% connection
A projecting beam or boom; as: (a) One projecting from each bow of a vessel, to haul the fore tack to, called a tack bumpkin. (b) One…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, boom, spar, projects, over.
Calcite
noun · 78% connection
Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, boom, spar, projects, over.
Camel
noun · 78% connection
A water-tight structure (as a large box or boxes) used to assist a vessel in passing over a shoal or bar or in navigating shallow wate…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, boom, spar, projects, over.
Carry
verb · 78% connection
To transfer from one place (as a country, book, or column) to another; as, to carry the war from Greece into Asia; to carry an account…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, boom, spar, projects, over.
Catboat
noun · 78% connection
A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a gaff and long boom. See Illustrat…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, boom, spar, projects, over.
Crank
noun · 78% connection
Liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, boom, spar, projects, over.
Driver
noun · 78% connection
The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, boom, spar, projects, over.
Fore-topgallant
adjective · 78% connection
Designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. See Sail.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, boom, spar, projects, over.
Foresail
noun · 78% connection
The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, boom, spar, projects, over.
Forward
adjective · 78% connection
Near, or at the fore part; in advance of something else; as, the forward gun in a ship, or the forward ship in a fleet.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, boom, spar, projects, over.
Guy
noun · 78% connection
A rope, chain, or rod attached to anything to steady it; as: a rope to steady or guide an object which is being hoisted or lowered; a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, boom, spar, projects, over.
Gybe
v. t. & i. · 78% connection
To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind un…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, boom, spar, projects, over.
Inhauler
noun · 78% connection
A rope used to draw in the jib boom, or flying jib boom.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, boom, spar, projects, over.
Jib
verb · 78% connection
A triangular sail set upon a stay or halyard extending from the foremast or fore-topmast to the bowsprit or the jib boom. Large vessel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, boom, spar, projects, over.
Jibe
verb · 78% connection
To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, boom, spar, projects, over.
Keel
noun · 78% connection
A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the pri…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: large, boom, spar, projects, over.
