sailless
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a word derived from
sail.
sailnounan area of canvas or other fabric extended to the wind in such a way as to transmit the force of the wind to an assemblage of spars and rigging mounted firmly on a hull, raft, iceboat, etc., so as to drive it along.
Example Sentences
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It was the sailless ship of Herr Anton Flettner.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Most come from Fedu, a sliver of an island barely 200 yards to the west, rowing back and forth in small, sailless dhonis.
From Time Magazine Archive
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To him Bar Noemi related all his wonderful adventures, his marvellous deliverance from the ocean on a sailless, rudderless raft, the loathsome spectacles in Triton's corrupted city, and his fight with the godless giant.
From Tales From J?kai by M?r J?kai
He always heaved a sigh of disappointment when he swept the sailless ocean with his glass.
From The Real America in Romance, Volume 6; a Century Too Soon (A Story by John R. (John Roy) Musick
The ancient Angles had a saga which told of the arrival in their country of a boat, evidently sailless, oarless, and rudderless, containing only a child surrounded by arms and treasure.
From A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel