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sailless

  • a word derived from sail.
    sail
    noun
    an 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.

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It was the sailless ship of Herr Anton Flettner.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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