Definition of sailing

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Sailing (n.) The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation; as, globular sailing; oblique sailing..

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Ballahou :: Ballahou (n.) A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies..
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..
Chapel :: Chapel (v. t.) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing..
Closehauled :: Closehauled (a.) Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.
Master :: Master (n.) The commander of a merchant vessel; -- usually called captain. Also, a commissioned officer in the navy ranking next above ensign and below lieutenant; formerly, an officer on a man-of-war who had immediate charge, under the commander, of sailing the vessel..
Loxodromic :: Loxodromic (a.) Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines; as, loxodromic tables..
Smack :: Smack (n.) A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade..
Sailing :: Sailing (n.) The act of one who, or that which, sails; the motion of a vessel on water, impelled by wind or steam; the act of starting on a voyage..
Blanket :: Blanket (v. t.) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her.
Sailing :: Sailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sai.
Seagoing :: Seagoing (a.) Going upon the sea; especially, sailing upon the deep sea; -- used in distinction from coasting or river, as applied to vessels..
Foist :: Foist (n.) A light and fast-sailing ship.
Coasting :: Coasting (a.) Sailing along or near a coast, or running between ports along a coast..
Trim :: Trim (v. t.) To arrange in due order for sailing; as, to trim the sails..
Foul :: Foul (v. t.) To cover (a ship's bottom) with anything that impered its sailing; as, a bottom fouled with barnacles..
Assailing :: Assailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assai.
Forge :: Forge (v. t.) To move heavily and slowly, as a ship after the sails are furled; to work one's way, as one ship in outsailing another; -- used especially in the phrase to forge ahead..
Plough :: Plough (v. t.) To furrow; to make furrows, grooves, or ridges in; to run through, as in sailing..
Clipper :: Clipper (n.) A vessel with a sharp bow, built and rigged for fast sailing..
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