Word Meanings - WINDBOUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

prevented from sailing, by a contrary wind. See Weatherbound.

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• SAILBOAT
  A boat propelled by a sail or sails.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• SAILOR
  One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman. Syn. -- Mariner; seaman; seafarer. Sailor's choice. An excellent
• SAILABLE
  Capable of being sailed over; navigable; as, a sailable river.
• SAILMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• CONTRARY
  Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions. Contrary motion , the progression of parts in opposite directions, one ascending, the other descending. Syn. -- Adverse; repugnant; hostile; inimical;
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• PREVENTABILITY
  The quality or state of being preventable.
• SAIL
  1. An extent of canvas or other fabric by means of which the wind is made serviceable as a power for propelling vessels through the water. Behoves him now both sail and oar. Milton. 2. Anything resembling a sail, or regarded as a sail. 3. A wing;
• PREVENTIONAL
  Tending to prevent.
• SAILER
  1. A sailor. Sir P. Sidney. 2. A ship or other vessel; -- with qualifying words descriptive of speed or manner of sailing; as, a heavy sailer; a fast sailer.
• PREVENTER
  An auxiliary rope to strengthen a mast. Preventer bolts, or Preventer plates , fixtures connected with preventers to reënforce other rigging. -- Preventer stay. Same as Preventer, 3. (more info) 1. One who goes before; one who forestalls or
• SAILING
  The art of managing a vessel; seamanship; navigation; as, globular sailing; oblique sailing. Note: For the several methods of sailing, see under Circular, Globular, Oblique, Parallel, etc. Sailing master , formerly, a warrant officer, ranking next
• PREVENTION
  1. The act of going, or state of being, before. The greater the distance, the greater the prevention. Bacon. 2. Anticipation; esp., anticipation of needs or wishes; hence, precaution; forethought. Hammond. Shak. 3. The act of preventing
• SAILFISH
  The banner fish, or spikefish The basking, or liver, shark. The quillback.
• SAILY
  Like a sail. Drayton.
• PREVENTIVE
  1. Going before; preceding. Any previous counsel or preventive understanding. Cudworth. 2. Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease. Physic is either curative or preventive.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• ASSAILMENT
  The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.
• SKYSAIL
  The sail set next above the royal. See Illust. under Sail.
• ASSAILER
  One who assails.
• STUNSAIL
  A contraction of Studding sail. With every rag set, stunsails, sky scrapers and all. Lowell.
• WATER SAIL
  A small sail sometimes set under a studding sail or under a driver boom, and reaching nearly to the water.
• TRYSAIL
  A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer. Totten.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• LUGSAIL
  A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail. Totten.