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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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, square-rigged, vessel, yard, center.
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, square-rigged, vessel, yard, center.
Barkentine
noun · 78% connection
A threemasted vessel, having the foremast square-rigged, and the others schooner-rigged. [Spelled also barquentine, barkantine, etc.]…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, square-rigged, vessel, yard, center.
Barque
noun · 78% connection
A three-masted vessel, having her foremast and mainmast square-rigged, and her mizzenmast schooner-rigged.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, square-rigged, vessel, yard, center.
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.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, square-rigged, vessel, yard, center.
Brace
noun · 78% connection
A rope reeved through a block at the end of a yard, by which the yard is moved horizontally; also, a rudder gudgeon.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, square-rigged, vessel, yard, center.
Brig
noun · 78% connection
A two-masted, square-rigged vessel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, square-rigged, vessel, yard, center.
Brigantine
noun · 78% connection
A two-masted, square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig in that she does not carry a square mainsail.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, square-rigged, vessel, yard, center.
Broadcloth
noun · 78% connection
A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width (i.e., a yard and a half); -- so called in distinction fr…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, square-rigged, vessel, yard, center.
Central
adjective · 78% connection
Relating to the center; situated in or near the center or middle; containing the center; of or pertaining to the parts near the center…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, square-rigged, vessel, yard, center.
Clew
noun · 78% connection
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…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, square-rigged, vessel, yard, center.
Course
noun · 78% connection
The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, square-rigged, vessel, yard, center.
Cutter
noun · 78% connection
A fast sailing vessel with one mast, rigged in most essentials like a sloop. A cutter is narrower end deeper than a sloop of the same…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, square-rigged, vessel, yard, center.
Epicycle
noun · 78% connection
A circle, whose center moves round in the circumference of a greater circle; or a small circle, whose center, being fixed in the defer…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, square-rigged, vessel, yard, center.
Foot
noun · 78% connection
A measure of length equivalent to twelve inches; one third of a yard. See Yard.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, square-rigged, vessel, yard, center.
Footrope
noun · 78% connection
The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, square-rigged, vessel, yard, center.
Foresail
noun · 78% connection
The sail bent to the foreyard of a square-rigged vessel, being the lowest sail on the foremast.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, square-rigged, vessel, yard, center.
Frigatoon
noun · 78% connection
A Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: half, square-rigged, vessel, yard, center.
