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Arab
noun · 78% connection
One of a swarthy race occupying Arabia, and numerous in Syria, Northern Africa, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coasting, vessel, arabia, east, africa.
Atlantic
adjective · 78% connection
Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coasting, vessel, arabia, east, africa.
Baggala
noun · 78% connection
A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian Ocean.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coasting, vessel, arabia, east, africa.
Bedouin
noun · 78% connection
One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coasting, vessel, arabia, east, africa.
Bilander
noun · 78% connection
A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coasting, vessel, arabia, east, africa.
Caravel
noun · 78% connection
The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commande…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coasting, vessel, arabia, east, africa.
Catarrhine
noun · 78% connection
of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coasting, vessel, arabia, east, africa.
Coffee
noun · 78% connection
The "beans" or "berries" (pyrenes) obtained from the drupes of a small evergreen tree of the genus Coffea, growing in Abyssinia, Arabi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coasting, vessel, arabia, east, africa.
Course
noun · 78% connection
The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coasting, vessel, arabia, east, africa.
Cruise
verb · 78% connection
To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coasting, vessel, arabia, east, africa.
Dugong
noun · 78% connection
An aquatic herbivorous mammal (Halicore dugong), of the order Sirenia, allied to the manatee, but with a bilobed tail. It inhabits the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coasting, vessel, arabia, east, africa.
East
adjective · 78% connection
Toward the rising sun; or toward the point where the sun rises when in the equinoctial; as, the east gate; the east border; the east s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coasting, vessel, arabia, east, africa.
Felucca
noun · 78% connection
A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails, -- once common in the Mediterranean.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coasting, vessel, arabia, east, africa.
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: coasting, vessel, arabia, east, africa.
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: coasting, vessel, arabia, east, africa.
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: coasting, vessel, arabia, east, africa.
Head
noun · 78% connection
The uppermost, foremost, or most important part of an inanimate object; such a part as may be considered to resemble the head of an an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coasting, vessel, arabia, east, africa.
Himyaritic
adjective · 78% connection
Pertaining to Himyar, an ancient king of Yemen, in Arabia, or to his successors or people; as, the Himjaritic characters, language, et…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: coasting, vessel, arabia, east, africa.
