Sailboat: alternatives and connections

Hence, any vessel; usually with some epithet descriptive of its use or mode of propulsion; as, pilot boat, packet boat, passage boat,…

An aquatic hemipterous insect of the genus Notonecta; -- so called from swimming on its back, which gives it the appearance of a littl…

A rope stitched to the edges of a sail to strengthen the sail.

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…

A rope fastened near the middle of the leech or perpendicular edge of the square sails, by subordinate ropes, called bridles, and used…

The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.

One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.

A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a…

Something for which canvas is used: (a) A sail, or a collection of sails. (b) A tent, or a collection of tents. (c) A painting, or a p…

Any vessel with twin hulls, whether propelled by sails or by steam; esp., one of a class of double-hulled pleasure boats remarkable fo…

To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yar…

A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore-and-aft sail.

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.

A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house, having large lateen sails.

Hence: Towards the mouth of a river; towards the sea; as, to sail or swim down a stream; to sail down the sound.

A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind.

A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails, -- once common in the Mediterranean.

To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails.