English > sailing vessel: 1 sense > noun 1, artifact| Meaning | A vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts. |
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| Synonym | sailing ship |
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| Category of | 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) |
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| weatherly | (of a sailing vessel) making very little leeway when close-hauled |
| Parts | 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 |
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| gaff | A spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail |
| gaffsail, gaff-headed sail | A quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff |
| helm | steering mechanism for a vessel |
| mast | A vertical spar for supporting sails |
| sail, canvas, canvass, sheet | A large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel |
| yard | A long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen |
| Narrower | Indiaman | A large sailing ship that was engaged in the British trade with India |
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| bark, barque | A sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts |
| brig | Two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts |
| brigantine, hermaphrodite brig | Two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast |
| clipper, clipper ship | A fast sailing ship used in former times |
| cutter | A sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop |
| dhow | A lateen-rigged sailing vessel used by Arabs |
| felucca | A fast narrow sailing ship of the Mediterranean |
| fore-and-after | sailing vessel with a fore-and-aft rig |
| galleon | A large square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts |
| ketch | A sailing vessel with two masts |
| rigger | A sailing vessel with a specified rig |
| sailboat, sailing boat | A small sailing vessel |
| schooner | sailing vessel used in former times |
| sloop | A sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow |
| smack | A sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast |
| square-rigger | A square-rigged sailing ship |
| windjammer | A large sailing ship |
| yawl, dandy | A sailing vessel with two masts |
| Broader | vessel, watercraft | A craft designed for water transportation / transportation |
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| Spanish | balandra, embarcación a vela, velero |
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| Catalan | balandra, vaixell de vela, veler |
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