| 单词 | sailing ship |
| 释义 | sailing ship (once / 10834 pages) n WORD FAMILY sailing ship: sailing ships USAGE EXAMPLESAccording to Quartz, cats conquered the planet “by doing odd jobs for farmers and hitching rides on sailing ships.” Los Angeles Times(Sep 28, 2016) “If wooden sailing ships in the old days were not reusable, I don’t think the United States would exist.” National Geographic(Sep 27, 2016) She chose to spend five days aboard a large sailing ship in the San Juan Islands. Washington Post(Sep 22, 2016) n a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts Syn|Hypo|Hyper sailing vessel bark, barque a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts brigtwo-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on both masts brigantine, hermaphrodite brigtwo-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast clipper, clipper shipa fast sailing ship used in former times cuttera sailing vessel with a single mast set further back than the mast of a sloop dhowa lateen-rigged sailing vessel used by Arabs feluccaa fast narrow sailing ship of the Mediterranean fore-and-aftersailing vessel with a fore-and-aft rig galleona large square-rigged sailing ship with three or more masts; used by the Spanish for commerce and war from the 15th to 18th centuries Indiamana large sailing ship that was engaged in the British trade with India ketcha sailing vessel with two masts; the mizzen is forward of the rudderpost riggera sailing vessel with a specified rig sailboat, sailing boata small sailing vessel; usually with a single mast schoonersailing vessel used in former times sloopa sailing vessel with a single mast set about one third of the boat's length aft of the bow smacka sailing ship (usually rigged like a sloop or cutter) used in fishing and sailing along the coast square-riggera square-rigged sailing ship windjammera large sailing ship dandy, yawla sailing vessel with two masts; a small mizzen is aft of the rudderpost carack, carracka large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman catamarana sailboat with two parallel hulls held together by single deck catboata sailboat with a single mast set far forward knockabouta sloop with a simplified rig and no bowsprit raceabouta small sloop having the keep of a knockabout but with finer lines and carrying more sail sharpiea shallow-draft sailboat with a sharp prow, flat bottom, and triangular sail; formerly used along the northern Atlantic coast of the United States sharpshootera fast schooner once used by New England fisherman for illegal fishing in Canadian waters trimarana fast sailboat with 3 parallel hulls vessel, watercraft a craft designed for water transportation |
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