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

Navigate :: Navigate (v. t.) To steer, direct, or manage in sailing; to conduct (ships) upon the water by the art or skill of seamen; as, to navigate a ship..

Fetch :: Fetch (v. t.) To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing.

Demurrage :: Demurrage (n.) The detention of a vessel by the freighter beyond the time allowed in her charter party for loading, unloading, or sailing..

Flanker :: Flanker (n.) One who, or that which, flanks, as a skirmisher or a body of troops sent out upon the flanks of an army toguard a line of march, or a fort projecting so as to command the side of an assailing body..

Assailment :: Assailment (n.) The act or power of assailing; attack; assault.

Luff :: Luff (n.) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.

Rise :: Rise (v.) To become apparent; to emerge into sight; to come forth; to appear; as, an eruption rises on the skin; the land rises to view to one sailing toward the shore..

Van :: Van (n.) The front of an army; the first line or leading column; also, the front line or foremost division of a fleet, either in sailing or in battle..

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

Assailant :: Assailant (a.) Assailing; attacking.

Trim :: Trim (v. t.) To arrange in due order for sailing; as, to trim the sails..

Smack :: Smack (n.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade..

Foul :: Foul (v. t.) To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles..

Seagoing :: Seagoing (a.) Going upon the sea; especially, sailing upon the deep sea; -- used in distinction from coasting or river, as applied to vessels..

West :: West (n.) The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having been discovered by sailing westward from Europe; the Occident..

Careen :: Careen (v. i.) To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel..

Rove :: Rove (v. i.) Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise..

Coasting :: Coasting (n.) A sailing along a coast, or from port to port; a carrying on a coasting trade..

Outsail :: Outsail (v. t.) To excel, or to leave behind, in sailing; to sail faster than..

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