sailing ship

sailing ship
A ship with masts and sails, powered by the wind.

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  • Sailing ship — is now used to refer to any large wind powered vessel. In technical terms, a ship was a sailing vessel with a specific rig of at least three masts, square rigged on all of them, making the sailing adjective redundant. In popular usage ship became …   Wikipedia

  • sailing ship — sailing ships N COUNT A sailing ship is a large ship with sails, especially of the kind that were used to carry passengers or cargo. American clippers were the ultimate sailing ships …   English dictionary

  • sailing ship — n a large ship with sails …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • sailing ship — sailing ,ship noun count a large ship that uses sails to move across water …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • sailing ship — ► NOUN ▪ a ship propelled by sails …   English terms dictionary

  • sailing ship — noun a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts • Syn: ↑sailing vessel • Members of this Topic: ↑weatherly, ↑weatherliness • Hypernyms: ↑vessel, ↑watercraft …   Useful english dictionary

  • sailing ship — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms sailing ship : singular sailing ship plural sailing ships a large ship that uses sails to move across water …   English dictionary

  • Sailing Ship Columbia — Disneyland Land Frontierland Designer Joe Fowler Ray Wallace …   Wikipedia

  • Sailing Ship Columbia Riverboat — Sailing Ship Columbia Le Sailing Ship Columbia est un bateau servant d attraction dans le parc Disneyland en Californie. C est une réplique grandeur nature du ship sloop (version anglo américaine des corvettes du XVIIIe siècle) USS Columbia …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Sailing ship accidents — Sailing ships were (and are) frequently put in the way of difficult conditions, whether by storm or combat, and the crew frequently called upon to cope with accidents, ranging from the parting of a single line to whole destruction of the rigging …   Wikipedia

  • sailing ship — ship that is propelled by means of sails …   English contemporary dictionary

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