| bark3 |
a sailing ship with between three and five masts, all but one of which are square-rigged. |
| becalm |
to make (a sailing vessel) motionless from lack of wind. |
| boating |
an act, instance, or process of using a boat for pleasure, as in rowing, canoeing, or sailing. [1/2 definitions] |
| bowline |
a rope used to keep the weather edge of a square sail pulled forward and the sail as flat as possible when sailing close-hauled. [1/2 definitions] |
| bowsprit |
a large pole projecting forward from the bow of some sailing vessels. |
| brig |
a two-masted sailing vessel with square-rigged sails. [1/2 definitions] |
| brigantine |
a two-masted sailing vessel with square-rigged sails on the front mast and a fore-and-aft mainsail. |
| caïque |
a small single-masted sailing vessel used in the eastern Mediterranean. [1/2 definitions] |
| caravel |
a small, light, fast sailing ship used by the Spanish and Portuguese in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with two or three masts and triangular sails. |
| circumnavigate |
to go entirely around, esp. by sailing. |
| clipper |
a fast type of sailing ship, built in the nineteenth century. [1/3 definitions] |
| close-hauled |
with the sails trimmed very flat for sailing as close as possible to the wind. |
| corvette |
an obsolete sailing vessel that was smaller than a frigate and usu. armed with one row of guns. [1/2 definitions] |
| cutter |
a sailing vessel with one mast. [1/4 definitions] |
| deadeye |
one of a pair of hardwood disks with holes and concave rims through and around which certain rigging ropes are passed, used esp. to tighten the stays and shrouds of sailing vessels. [1/2 definitions] |
| frigate |
a fast, medium-sized, armed sailing vessel used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. [1/2 definitions] |
| galleon |
a large three-masted sailing ship used esp. by the Spaniards in the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. |
| gear |
the ropes, blocks, and the like that constitute a sailing ship's rigging. [1/8 definitions] |
| hang glider |
a large kitelike apparatus used for sailing in the air, usu. with a harness and handle for one person. |
| hermaphrodite brig |
a sailing ship with a foremast that has square sails and a mainmast that has sails parallel to the keel. |
| jib1 |
any of various triangular sails, usu. in the foresection of a sailing vessel. [1/2 definitions] |