Word Meanings - SAILBOAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A boat propelled by a sail or sails.
Related words: (words related to SAILBOAT)
- PROPELLER
1. One who, or that which, propels. 2. A contrivance for propelling a steam vessel, usually consisting of a screw placed in the stern under water, and made to revolve by an engine; a propeller wheel. 3. A steamboat thus propelled; a screw steamer. - TRACTOR SCREW; TRACTOR PROPELLER
A propeller screw placed in front of the supporting planes of an aƫroplane instead of behind them, so that it exerts a pull instead of a push. Hence, Tractor monoplane, Tractor biplane, etc. - AFTER-SAILS
The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast. Totten.