A small and light seagoing vessel, apparently a kind of sloop, much used in the 15th and 16th centuries; according to Adm. Smyth, without forecastle…

A kind of sailing vessel.

A two- or three-masted fishing boat of various sizes, used esp. in the North Sea herring fishery. See also herring-buss, n.

A small mahone or Turkish barge.

(See quots.)

A flat-bottomed Turkish sailing vessel; a barge, a lighter.

A large, heavy boat, fitted with one or more masts and carrying fore-and-aft or lug sails and sometimes furnished with guns; a sloop.

In Malaysia and Indonesia: a type of undecked sailing boat, usually with a large triangular sail and a canoe-like outrigger. In Southern India: a…

A Levantine sailing-vessel.

A compositorial error for balinger, n. In quot. 1670 reflecting Anglo-Norman balyngers (plural) in Rot. Parl. 2 Hen. IV 22, to which Blount refers in…

A relatively small, broad-bodied, decked boat with a narrow transom, leeboards, and a two-masted spritsail rig, used until the late 19th cent. for…

A coasting vessel with three masts, formerly used in the Mediterranean.

(in form water-manakin) a kind of small sailing boat formerly used off the Dutch coast as a tow-boat.

= mistico, n.

= sharp, n.1 11 (See quots.) U.S.

A kind of Dutch ship or sailing boat.

A type of flat-bottomed Dutch sailing vessel, originally used for fishing.

(see quot. 1885).

(see quot. 1885 scow schooner n.).

Chiefly U.S. A sailing vessel which is able to make relatively good progress even when there is very little wind. Cf. ghost, v. 3b. Now rare.

= sharpie, n.

spec. A light kind of sailing-boat in use on the St. Lawrence. Also attributive.

A Malay and Indonesian sailing vessel; spec. a two-masted pleasure boat with a carved stern. Cf. pajala, n.

A sailing boat, usually ketch- or schooner-rigged, chiefly used in the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea, esp. for holiday cruises. Cf. goelette…