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Word Meanings - SAILBOAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A boat propelled by a sail or sails.

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  • 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.

 

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