Sailboat: alternatives and connections

A small open vessel, or water craft, usually moved by cars or paddles, but often by a sail.

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…

A fungus (Ustilago foetida) which affects the ear of cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called pepperbrand.

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…

A strong cloth made of hemp, flax, or cotton; -- used for tents, sails, etc.

A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a…

Alt. of Clue

A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself.

See Cruse, a small bottle.

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

Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool

An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface

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

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.