sailless
- a word derived from sail.
Example Sentences
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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
It was the sailless ship of Herr Anton Flettner.
From Time Magazine Archive
The slender, dark outlines of the sailless upper masts were leaning sharply over to leeward, and describing what seemed like mystic circles and figures against the lighter sky.
From Overland by De Forest, J. W. (John William)
Broken was the helm and sailless was the mast, and he must drift till borne upon some ship-wrecking reef!
From Mike Fletcher A Novel by Moore, George (George Augustus)
A sailless sea, a cloudless sky, The level lonely moors, and I The only soul in all that vast Of color made intense to last!
From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss
