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sailing ship
noun
- a large ship equipped with sails.
sailing ship
noun
- a large sailing vessel
Word History and Origins
Origin of sailing ship1
Example Sentences
One of the strangest D&D campaign settings was Spelljammer, which involved traditional sailing ships that had been empowered with magic so that they could fly through the void of space, and explore different worlds.
So I’ve been thinking about airships and hot air balloons, this is all kind of a childhood love, And yet it seems to me that sailing ships— another childhood love —are carbon zero.
Again, Macaulay returning from India in 1837 compares his comfortable sailing-ship to a huge floating hotel.
Her record has not been beaten by any sailing ship in the fifty-three years that have since elapsed.
He had been a sailor in his time, and had made two voyages to Melbourne as apprentice in a large sailing-ship.
She had heard her husband talk of his sailing-ship days and she remembered his worst experiences.
The funnels, too, being made to shut up like a telescope, a steamer could thus be easily turned into a sailing ship.
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