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Schooner

Originally, a small, sharp-built vessel, with two masts and fore-and-aft rig. Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner. About 1840, longer vessels with three masts, fore-and-aft rigged, came into use, and since that time vessels with four masts and even with six masts, so rigged, are built. Schooners with more than two masts are designated three-masted schooners, four-masted schooners, etc. See Illustration in Appendix.

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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…

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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…

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Arming noun · 78% connection

Red dress cloths formerly hung fore and aft outside of a ship's upper works on holidays.

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Bagreef noun · 78% connection

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

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Balancereef noun · 78% connection

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

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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.

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Clue noun · 78% connection

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

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Coamings n. pl. · 78% connection

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

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Counter brace unknown · 78% connection

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

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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.

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Driver noun · 78% connection

The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.

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Fore adverb · 78% connection

Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; a…

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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…

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Gaff noun · 78% connection

The spar upon which the upper edge of a fore-and-aft sail is extended.

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Goosewinged adjective · 78% connection

Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing.

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Gybe v. t. & i. · 78% connection

To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind un…

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Hogframe noun · 78% connection

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

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Hoist noun · 78% connection

The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay.

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