sailboat

[seyl-boht]

noun

1. a boat having sails as its principal means of propulsion.

Other Word Forms

• sailboater noun
• sailboating noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of sailboat¹

First recorded in 1790–1800; sail + boat

Example Sentences

Vaughan had been on the boat with her husband and two children, aged 12 and eight, and had been sunbathing when the motorboat crashed into a sailboat carrying party-goers.

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A pilot friend who is crossing the Atlantic from the Canary Islands in a sailboat this month called cruise ships a “floating petri dish.‘

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Jamie’s first job out of Duke University had been delivering sailboats to rich people up and down the East Coast.

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They allege that Zhuravlev, an experienced deep-sea diver, was among a group of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians who used a small sailboat in an operation to plant explosives on the pipelines.

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Say goodbye to the gold miner, agricultural lands, sailboats and the shape of the Golden State shown on the backgrounds of existing driver’s licenses.

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Related Words

• catamaran 
• craft 
• cutter 
• schooner 
• ship 
• skiff 
• sloop 
• vessel 
• yacht