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sailboat

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sailboat [′sāl‚bōt]
(naval architecture)
A boat fitted with one or more sails, and propelled by wind striking the sails.
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We hired a sailboat and a guide and made an excursion to one of the small islands in the harbor to visit the Castle d'If.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Shelley's death came when he was only thirty, in 1822, by a sudden accident--he was drowned by the upsetting of his sailboat in the Gulf of Spezia, between Genoa and Pisa.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
One evening he cast off the painter of a sailboat from the iron ring that secured it to the dock at Leghorn, wrapped himself in his coat and lay down, and said to the crew, -- "To the Island of Elba
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
 
 
 
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