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SAILING SHIP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts
Synonyms:
sailing ship; sailing vessel
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("sailing ship" is a kind of...):
vessel; watercraft (a craft designed for water transportation)
Meronyms (parts of "sailing ship"):
canvas; canvass; sail; sheet (a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel)
mast (a vertical spar for supporting sails)
gaff (a spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail)
gaff-headed sail; gaffsail (a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff)
helm (steering mechanism for a vessel; a mechanical device by which a vessel is steered)
boom (any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring)
yard (a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen)
Domain member category:
weatherliness ((of a sailing vessel) the quality of being able to sail close to the wind with little drift to the leeward (even in a stiff wind))
weatherly ((of a sailing vessel) making very little leeway when close-hauled)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sailing ship"):
dandy; yawl (a sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost)
windjammer (a large sailing ship)
square-rigger (a square-rigged sailing ship)
smack (a sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast)
sloop (a sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow)
schooner (sailing vessel used in former times)
sailboat; sailing boat (a small sailing vessel; usually with a single mast)
rigger (a sailing vessel with a specified rig)
ketch (a sailing vessel with two masts; the mizzen is forward of the rudderpost)
Indiaman (a large sailing ship that was engaged in the British trade with India)
galleon (a large square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts; used by the Spanish for commerce and war from the 15th to 18th centuries)
fore-and-after (sailing vessel with a fore-and-aft rig)
felucca (a fast narrow sailing ship of the Mediterranean)
dhow (a lateen-rigged sailing vessel used by Arabs)
cutter (a sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop)
clipper; clipper ship (a fast sailing ship used in former times)
brigantine; hermaphrodite brig (two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast)
brig (two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts)
