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Wind Powered Ship Crossword Clue and Answers List

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SAILBOATS Wind-powered vessels
STEAMER Wetsuit; coal powered ship
LUFF The side of a ship toward the wind.
AHOLD Near the wind; as, to lay a ship ahold.
WEATHERLY Working, or able to sail, close to the wind; as, a weatherly ship.
HAUL To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See under Haul, v. t.
STRETCH To sail by the wind under press of canvas; as, the ship stretched to the eastward.
BOOM To rush with violence and noise, as a ship under a press of sail, before a free wind.
SWING To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.
GRIPE To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing closehauled, requires constant labor at the helm.
CAREEN To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel.
BLOW A blowing, esp., a violent blowing of the wind; a gale; as, a heavy blow came on, and the ship put back to port.
SHIPWRECK To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest.
LARGE Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter.
LEEWARD Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the part or side toward which the wind blows; -- opposed to windward; as, a leeward berth; a leeward ship.
ALEE On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side.
LEE A sheltered place; esp., a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection; as, the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship.
DRAG Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See Drag sail (below).
SAIL To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by the action of steam or other power.
HEAD To go in front of; to get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose; hence, to check or restrain; as, to head a drove of cattle; to head a person; the wind heads a ship.
CORDLESS Battery-powered
CLIPPER Ship
MEANDER Wind
VESSEL Ship
ENERGETIC High-powered
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