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Anti-trade
noun · 78% connection
A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: driven, steadily, swiftly, before, strong.
Bare
adjective · 78% connection
Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: driven, steadily, swiftly, before, strong.
Boom
verb · 78% connection
To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: driven, steadily, swiftly, before, strong.
Bunt
noun · 78% connection
The middle part, cavity, or belly of a sail; the part of a furled sail which is at the center of the yard.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: driven, steadily, swiftly, before, strong.
Clubhaul
verb · 78% connection
To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the win…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: driven, steadily, swiftly, before, strong.
Com-
unknown · 78% connection
A prefix from the Latin preposition cum, signifying with, together, in conjunction, very, etc. It is used in the form com- before b, m…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: driven, steadily, swiftly, before, strong.
Drift
noun · 78% connection
The difference between the size of a bolt and the hole into which it is driven, or between the circumference of a hoop and that of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: driven, steadily, swiftly, before, strong.
Fan
noun · 78% connection
A small vane or sail, used to keep the large sails of a smock windmill always in the direction of the wind.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: driven, steadily, swiftly, before, strong.
Fill
adjective · 78% connection
To press and dilate, as a sail; as, the wind filled the sails.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: driven, steadily, swiftly, before, strong.
Fly
verb · 78% connection
To move through the air or before the wind; esp., to pass or be driven rapidly through the air by any impulse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: driven, steadily, swiftly, before, strong.
Fore-topgallant
adjective · 78% connection
Designating the mast, sail, yard, etc., above the topmast; as, the fore-topgallant sail. See Sail.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: driven, steadily, swiftly, before, strong.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: driven, steadily, swiftly, before, strong.
Luff
verb · 78% connection
To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the win…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: driven, steadily, swiftly, before, strong.
Pro-
unknown · 78% connection
A prefix signifying before, in front, forth, for, in behalf of, in place of, according to; as, propose, to place before; proceed, to g…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: driven, steadily, swiftly, before, strong.
Reach
verb · 78% connection
To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: driven, steadily, swiftly, before, strong.
Redshank
noun · 78% connection
A bare-legged person; -- a contemptuous appellation formerly given to the Scotch Highlanders, in allusion to their bare legs.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: driven, steadily, swiftly, before, strong.
Reef
verb · 78% connection
That part of a sail which is taken in or let out by means of the reef points, in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: driven, steadily, swiftly, before, strong.
Rigging
noun · 78% connection
DRess; tackle; especially (Naut.), the ropes, chains, etc., that support the masts and spars of a vessel, and serve as purchases for a…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: driven, steadily, swiftly, before, strong.
