Schooner: alternatives and connections

Any field of arable or pasture land.

The present indicative plural of the substantive verb to be; but etymologically a different word from be, or was. Am, art, are, and is…

of Arm

The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails.

The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.

The fourth power, or the square of the square. Thus 4x4=16, the square of 4, and 16x16=256, the biquadrate of 4.

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

Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. th…

The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.

To deprive of a mast of masts; to break and carry away the masts from; as, a storm dismasted the ship.

One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.

Journey; way; method of proceeding.

Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vesse…

A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish.

Having a "goosewing."

See Jib.

A trussed frame extending fore and aft, usually above deck, and intended to increase the longitudinal strength and stiffness. Used chi…

To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package o…