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Large fenders hung over a vessel's side to protect it in handling a cargo. Totten.

A small vessel of iron, copper, or other metal, with a handle, used for culinary purpose, as for stewing meat.

A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See Bottle, 1. "Skins of wine." Tennyson.

The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.

A boat; a small vessel. [Obs.] Sir R. Williams.

The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing. [Colloq.]

. (b) A search after fugitive slaves, often conducted with bloodhounds. -- Slave ship, a vessel employed in the slave trade or used for transporting slaves; a slaver. -- Slave trade, the busines of dealing in slaves, especially of buying them for transportation from their homes to be sold elsewhere. -- Slave trader,…

A vessel engaged in the slave trade; a slave ship.

riously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel. [Cant]

prices. (c) A slide rule. -- Sliding ways (Naut.), the timber guides used in launching a vessel.

An inclined plane on which a vessel is built, or upon which it is hauled for repair.

A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability…

To cause to overflow, as a liquid, by the motion of the vessel containing it; to spill.

A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade.

of a hazelnut, separated from the coarser parts by screening. -- Small craft (Naut.), a vessel, or vessels in general, of a small size. -- Small fruits. See under Fruit. -- Small hand, a certain size of paper. See under Paper. -- Small hours. See under Hour. -- Small letter. (Print.), a lower-case letter. See Low…

a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc.

A vessel employed in smuggling.

To injure or destroy, as a steamboat or other vessel, by a snag, or projecting part of a sunken tree. [U. S.]

A play in which raisins are snatched from a vessel containing burning brandy, and eaten; also, that which is so eaten. See Flapdragon. Swift.

A vessel of drink. [Prov. Eng.] A sneaker of five gallons. Spectator.