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Acre
noun · 78% connection
A piece of land, containing 160 square rods, or 4,840 square yards, or 43,560 square feet. This is the English statute acre. That of t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, head, mainmast, square-rigged, vessels.
After-sails
noun · 78% connection
The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, head, mainmast, square-rigged, vessels.
Air vessel
unknown · 78% connection
A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pu…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, head, mainmast, square-rigged, vessels.
Are
noun · 78% connection
The unit of superficial measure, being a square of which each side is ten meters in length; 100 square meters, or about 119.6 square y…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, head, mainmast, square-rigged, vessels.
Barkentine
noun · 78% connection
A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.]…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, head, mainmast, square-rigged, vessels.
Barque
noun · 78% connection
A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, head, mainmast, square-rigged, vessels.
Biquadrate
noun · 78% connection
The fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, head, mainmast, square-rigged, vessels.
Brad
noun · 78% connection
A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat ci…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, head, mainmast, square-rigged, vessels.
Brig
noun · 78% connection
A two-masted, square-rigged vessel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, head, mainmast, square-rigged, vessels.
Brigantine
noun · 78% connection
A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig in that she does not carry a square mainsail.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, head, mainmast, square-rigged, vessels.
Bushhammer
noun · 78% connection
A hammer with a head formed of a bundle of square bars, with pyramidal points, arranged in rows, or a solid head with a face cut into…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, head, mainmast, square-rigged, vessels.
Castle
verb · 78% connection
To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of co…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, head, mainmast, square-rigged, vessels.
Centare
noun · 78% connection
A measure of area, the hundredth part of an are; one square meter, or about 1/ square yards.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, head, mainmast, square-rigged, vessels.
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: platform, head, mainmast, square-rigged, vessels.
Crosstrees
n. pl. · 78% connection
Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a s…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, head, mainmast, square-rigged, vessels.
Elevator
noun · 78% connection
A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from differ…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, head, mainmast, square-rigged, vessels.
Flat
noun · 78% connection
A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides; a platform car.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: platform, head, mainmast, square-rigged, vessels.
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: platform, head, mainmast, square-rigged, vessels.
