sailing ship

Noun
  1. A vessel that is powered by the wind;
    Often having several masts (synset 104135920)
    associated with:
    • 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
    is a type of: vessel, watercraft - a craft designed for water transportation
    subtypes:
    • 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; used by the Spanish for commerce and war from the 15th to 18th centuries
    • indiaman - a large sailing ship that was engaged in the British trade with India
    • ketch - a sailing vessel with two masts; the mizzen is forward of the rudderpost
    • rigger - a sailing vessel with a specified rig
    • sailboat, sailing boat - a small sailing vessel; usually with a single mast
    • 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
    • dandy, yawl - a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost
    has:
    • 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
    • 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
    • mast - a vertical spar for supporting sails
    • canvas, canvass, sail, 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
    same as: sailing vessel

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