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Sea Dog :: Sea dog () An old sailor; a salt.

Trim :: Trim (n.) The state of a ship or her cargo, ballast, masts, etc., by which she is well prepared for sailing..

Sail :: Sail (v. t.) To fly through; to glide or move smoothly through.

Wassail :: Wassail (v. i.) To hold a wassail; to carouse.

Boom :: Boom (n.) A long pole or spar, run out for the purpose of extending the bottom of a particular sail; as, the jib boom, the studding-sail boom, etc..

Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock..

Aggressor :: Aggressor (n.) The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.

Tartan :: Tartan (n.) A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib..

Conscript :: Conscript (n.) One taken by lot, or compulsorily enrolled, to serve as a soldier or sailor..

Flap :: Flap (v.) The motion of anything broad and loose, or a stroke or sound made with it; as, the flap of a sail or of a wing..

Enlistment :: Enlistment (n.) The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor..

Blackstrap :: Blackstrap (n.) Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.

Crimp :: Crimp (n.) A keeper of a low lodging house where sailors and emigrants are entrapped and fleeced.

Impressment :: Impressment (n.) The act of seizing for public use, or of impressing into public service; compulsion to serve; as, the impressment of provisions or of sailors..

Course :: Course (n.) The lowest sail on any mast of a square-rigged vessel; as, the fore course, main course, etc..

Slug :: Slug (n.) A ship that sails slowly.

Sailed :: Sailed (imp. & p. p.) of Sai.

Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault..

Galiot :: Galiot (n.) A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail..

Disappear :: Disappear (v. i.) To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port..

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