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    SAILING SHIP

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several mastsplay

    Synonyms:

    sailing ship; sailing vessel

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting man-made objects

    Hypernyms ("sailing ship" is a kind of...):

    vessel; watercraft (a craft designed for water transportation)

    Meronyms (parts of "sailing ship"):

    canvas; canvass; sail; sheet (a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel)

    mast (a vertical spar for supporting sails)

    gaff (a spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail)

    gaff-headed sail; gaffsail (a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff)

    helm (steering mechanism for a vessel; a mechanical device by which a vessel is steered)

    boom (any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring)

    yard (a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen)

    Domain member category:

    weatherliness ((of a sailing vessel) the quality of being able to sail close to the wind with little drift to the leeward (even in a stiff wind))

    weatherly ((of a sailing vessel) making very little leeway when close-hauled)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sailing ship"):

    dandy; yawl (a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost)

    windjammer (a large sailing ship)

    square-rigger (a square-rigged sailing ship)

    smack (a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast)

    sloop (a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow)

    schooner (sailing vessel used in former times)

    sailboat; sailing boat (a small sailing vessel; usually with a single mast)

    rigger (a sailing vessel with a specified rig)

    ketch (a sailing vessel with two masts; the mizzen is forward of the rudderpost)

    Indiaman (a large sailing ship that was engaged in the British trade with India)

    galleon (a large square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts; used by the Spanish for commerce and war from the 15th to 18th centuries)

    fore-and-after (sailing vessel with a fore-and-aft rig)

    felucca (a fast narrow sailing ship of the Mediterranean)

    dhow (a lateen-rigged sailing vessel used by Arabs)

    cutter (a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop)

    clipper; clipper ship (a fast sailing ship used in former times)

    brigantine; hermaphrodite brig (two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast)

    brig (two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts)

    bark; barque (a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts)

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