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YACHT |
Sloop |
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SAILING |
On a sloop |
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SAILINGBOAT |
Sloop or ketch |
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BOYER |
A Flemish sloop with a castle at each end. |
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PUNGY |
A small sloop or shallop, or a large boat with sails. |
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DANDY |
A sloop or cutter with a jigger on which a lugsail is set. |
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FORESAIL |
The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail
next forward of the mast. |
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SMACK |
A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used
chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade. |
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FRIGATOON |
A Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a
mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged. |
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HOY |
A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in
conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to
larger vessels in port. |
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FIGHT |
To contend with in battle; to war against; as, they
fought the enemy in two pitched battles; the sloop fought the frigate
for three hours. |
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CORVETTE |
A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having
usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a
sloop of war. |
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LEAD |
To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be
foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the
Guards led the attack; Demosthenes leads the orators of all ages. |
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CUTTER |
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 length, a... |
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SLOOP |
...nsisting of
a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical
sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, w... |