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Felucca :: Felucca (n.) A small, swift-sailing vessel, propelled by oars and lateen sails, -- once common in the Mediterranean..

Ragged :: Ragged (n.) Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken; as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail..

Repel :: Repel (v. t.) To drive back; to force to return; to check the advance of; to repulse as, to repel an enemy or an assailant..

Cruise :: Cruise (v. i.) To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure..

Pricker :: Pricker (n.) A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking..

Crossjack :: Crossjack (n.) The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast..

Cruise :: Cruise (n.) A voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel, for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure..

Shorthead :: Shorthead (n.) A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.

Cringle :: Cringle (n.) An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc..

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

Beating :: Beating (n.) The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction.

Luff :: Luff (v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind.

Mariner :: Mariner (n.) One whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships; a seaman or sailor.

Crank :: Crank (n.) Liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail..

Rattle :: Rattle (v. t.) To assail, annoy, or stun with a rattling noise..

Cutter :: Cutter (n.) 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, and depends for stability on a deep keel, often heavily weighted with lead..

Drag :: Drag (v. t.) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below)..

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course..

Drop :: Drop (v. i.) To be deep in extent; to descend perpendicularly; as, her main topsail drops seventeen yards..

Sail :: Sail (n.) To set sail; to begin a voyage.

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