SAILING SHIP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sailing ship mean? 

• SAILING SHIP (noun)
  The noun SAILING SHIP has 1 sense:

1. a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts

  Familiarity information: SAILING SHIP used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAILING SHIP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

sailing ship; sailing vessel

Hypernyms ("sailing ship" is a kind of...):

vessel; watercraft (a craft designed for water transportation)

Meronyms (parts of "sailing ship"):

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)

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)

helm (steering mechanism for a vessel; a mechanical device by which a vessel is steered)

gaff-headed sail; gaffsail (a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail suspended from a gaff)

gaff (a spar rising aft from a mast to support the head of a quadrilateral fore-and-aft sail)

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"):

Indiaman (a large sailing ship that was engaged in the British trade with India)

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)

bark; barque (a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts)

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)

 Context examples 

He was in sailing ship, since Madam Mina tell of sails being set.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)