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Apparel
noun · 78% connection
The furniture of a ship, as masts, sails, rigging, anchors, guns, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, propelled, oars, whether, masts.
Bireme
noun · 78% connection
An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, propelled, oars, whether, masts.
Buss
noun · 78% connection
A small strong vessel with two masts and two cabins; -- used in the herring fishery.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, propelled, oars, whether, masts.
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: vessel, propelled, oars, whether, masts.
Catamaran
noun · 78% connection
Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails or by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure boats remarkable fo…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, propelled, oars, whether, masts.
Dismast
verb · 78% connection
To deprive of a mast of masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, propelled, oars, whether, masts.
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: vessel, propelled, oars, whether, masts.
Frigate
noun · 78% connection
Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vesse…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, propelled, oars, whether, masts.
Galiot
noun · 78% connection
A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, propelled, oars, whether, masts.
Gallivat
noun · 78% connection
A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, -- used on the Malabar coast.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, propelled, oars, whether, masts.
Gaydiang
noun · 78% connection
A vessel of Anam, with two or three masts, lofty triangular sails, and in construction somewhat resembling a Chinese junk.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, propelled, oars, whether, masts.
Hull
verb · 78% connection
The frame or body of a vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, propelled, oars, whether, masts.
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: vessel, propelled, oars, whether, masts.
Knot
noun · 78% connection
A division of the log line, serving to measure the rate of the vessel's motion. Each knot on the line bears the same proportion to a m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, propelled, oars, whether, masts.
Mast
verb · 78% connection
To furnish with a mast or masts; to put the masts of in position; as, to mast a ship.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, propelled, oars, whether, masts.
Masting
noun · 78% connection
The act or process of putting a mast or masts into a vessel; also, the scientific principles which determine the position of masts, an…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, propelled, oars, whether, masts.
Penteconter
noun · 78% connection
A Grecian vessel with fifty oars.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, propelled, oars, whether, masts.
Pinnace
noun · 78% connection
A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally, spynace or spyne.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: vessel, propelled, oars, whether, masts.
