sail

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(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

v. cruise, voyage; set sail; navigate, traverse. See navigation.—n. canvas; moonsail, moon-raker; jib, foresail, lateen, lug, mainsail, mizzen, spanker, topsail. See ship.

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(Roget's IV) n.

1. [Means of sailing a vessel]

Syn. sheet, sheets, canvas, muslin, cloth, rag*.

Sails include: mainsail, foresail, topsail, jib, spanker, ringsail, skysail, spritsail, staysail, fisherman staysail, topgallant, mizzen, fore topsail, fore staysail, fore trysail, fore royal, studdingsail, storm trysail, flying jib, outer jib, inner jib, working sails, light sails, kites, mizzen topsail, main topsail, upper main topsail, main staysail, fore skysail, mizzen topgallant, fore topgallant, trysail, mizzenroyal, balloon sail, spinnaker, spanker, balloon jib, crossjack, Genoa.

2. [A journey by sailing vessel]

Syn. voyage, cruise, trip; see journey .

• set sail,

Syn. go, depart, set out; see leave v. 1 , sail v. 1 , 2 .

v.

1. [To embark]

Syn. take ship, put to sea, put out to sea, make sail, get under way, set sail, weigh anchor, leave, begin a voyage.

2. [To travel by sailing]

Syn. cruise, voyage, bear in with the land, go alongside, bear down on, bear for, direct one's course for, set sail, put on sail, crowd sail, put to sea, sail away from, navigate, travel, make headway, mis-stay, lie in, make at, make for, heave to, lay in, lay for, fetch up, bring to, bear off, double a point, close with, back and fill, bear up for, run down, run in, put off, put in, gather way, hug the shore, plow the waves*, hang out the washing*, plow the deep*.

3. [To fly]

Syn. float, soar, ride the storm, skim, glide.

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) v.

ply the seas, cruise, ride the bounding main, pilot, navigate, skipper, tack, float, drift, shove off, cast off.

WORD FIND

• change tack: come about

• close to the wind: luffing, close-hauled

• come about: hard alee

• crew member: hand

• dead calm area of sea: doldrums

• fin used in place of keel: centerboard, daggerboard

• lean of vessel while sailing: heel

• line fitting on deck: chock

• line fixture with prongs: cleat

• lines and wires: rigging

• line used to hoist sail: lanyard

• mast, aft-most: mizzenmast

• mast, angle of: rake

• mast housing on deck: tabernacle

• mooring bow line: painter, bowline

• overhead: aloft

• pennant, yacht club: burgee

• race: regatta

• rigging, mast: forestay

• roll up sail: furl

• rope stairway to aloft: ratlines

• sail, adjust angle of: trim

• sail, aftermast, rigged fore-and-aft: spanker

• sail, forward, triangular: foresail, jib

• sail, large forward: Genoa

• sail, largest: mainsail

• sail, large, three-cornered: spinnaker

• sail, lower a: strike, take in

• sail, L-shaped: blooper

• sail, raise a: hoist, set

• sail, reduce main: reef

• sail set forward of mast, any: headsail

• sail, square, set abeam: square-rigged

• sail, triangular, fore-and-aft-rigged: Bermuda-rigged, Marconi-rigged

• sail used in weak winds: drifter

• seat used for worker aloft: bosun’s chair

• shallow water, sailing in: gunkholing

• sideways, moving: crabbing, making leeway

• spar, large vertical sail: mast

• spar on bow to which headsail is attached: bowsprit

• spar on which bottom of sail is attached: boom

• steers, crew member who: helmsman

• tack downwind: jibe

• tack upwind: beat

• vessel, tri-hulled: trimaran

• vessel, twin-hulled: catamaran wind indicators made of yarn tied to

• shrouds: telltales

• wind-protected side of vessel: lee, leeward

• wind, run before the: scud

• wind, sail with the: run

• wind, side of boat taking: windward

• wires that stabilize mast: shrouds

• world, sail around the: circumnavigate

• zigzagging course to counter wind: tacking

see boat, navy, sailboat, ship

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) verb 1. To move swiftly: bolt, bucket, bustle, dart, dash, festinate, flash, fleet, flit, fly, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, pelt2, race, rocket, run, rush, scoot, scour2, shoot, speed, sprint, tear1, trot, whirl, whisk, whiz, wing, zip, zoom. Informal: hotfoot, rip. Slang: barrel, highball. Chiefly British: nip1. Idioms: get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, hotfoot it, make haste, make time, make tracks, run like the wind, shake a leg, step (or jump) on it. See MOVE. 2. To pass quickly and lightly through the air: dart, float, fly, shoot, skim. See MOVE. 3. To move through the air with or as if ' with wings: flap, flit, flitter, flutter, fly, wing. See MOVE. 4. To proceed with ease, especially of expression: flow, glide, roll. See MOVE.