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Boohoo :: Boohoo (n.) The sailfish; -- called also woohoo.

Water Sail :: Water sail () A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water..

Lacing :: Lacing (n.) A rope or line passing through eyelet holes in the edge of a sail or an awning to attach it to a yard, gaff, etc..

Portage :: Portage (n.) The amount of a sailor's wages for a voyage.

Bonnet :: Bonnet (n.) An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds.

Clearer :: Clearer (n.) A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished..

Mast :: Mast (n.) A pole, or long, strong, round piece of timber, or spar, set upright in a boat or vessel, to sustain the sails, yards, rigging, etc. A mast may also consist of several pieces of timber united by iron bands, or of a hollow pillar of iron or steel..

Pinfish :: Pinfish (n.) The sailor's choice (Diplodus, / Lagodon, rhomboides)..

Impugn :: Impugn (v. t.) To attack by words or arguments; to contradict; to assail; to call in question; to make insinuations against; to gainsay; to oppose.

Yachting :: Yachting (n.) Sailing for pleasure in a yacht.

Wassail :: Wassail (a.) Of or pertaining to wassail, or to a wassail; convivial; as, a wassail bowl..

Bunt :: Bunt (v. i.) To swell out; as, the sail bunts..

Direction :: Direction (n.) The line or course upon which anything is moving or aimed to move, or in which anything is lying or pointing; aim; line or point of tendency; direct line or course; as, the ship sailed in a southeasterly direction..

Closehauled :: Closehauled (a.) Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.

Pelt :: Pelt (v. t.) To strike with something thrown or driven; to assail with pellets or missiles, as, to pelt with stones; pelted with hail..

Attempter :: Attempter (n.) An assailant; also, a temper..

Portage :: Portage (n.) A sailor's wages when in port.

Moonraker :: Moonraker (n.) Same as Moonsail.

Moonsail :: Moonsail (n.) A sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail..

Peal :: Peal (v. t.) To assail with noise or loud sounds.

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