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To incline to one side, or lie over, as a ship when sailing on a wind; to be off the keel.

consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations.…

A small sailboat, with a single mast placed as far forward as possible, carring a sail extended by a graff and long boom. See Illustration in Appendix.

water; a portable grate for coals. -- Chafing gear (Naut.), any material used to protect sails, rigging, or the like, at points where they are exposed to friction.

A sailor's song.

e a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.

ers; as, to cheer hounds in a chase. To cheer ship, to salute a passing ship by cheers of sailors stationed in the rigging.

icularly on the side of a vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail.

pass. -- Circular polarization. (Min.) See under Polarization. -- Circular or Globular sailing (Naut.), the method of sailing by the arc of a great circle. -- Circular saw. See under Saw.

Capable of being sailed round. Ray.

To sail completely round. Having circumnavigated the whole earth. T. Fuller.

The act of circumnavigating, or sailing round. Arbuthnot.

One who sails round. W. Guthrie.

required by law, give bonds, or perform other acts requisite, and procure a permission to sail, and such papers as the law requires. -- To clear a ship for action, or To clear for action (Naut.), to remove incumbrances from the decks, and prepare for an engagement. -- To clear the land (Naut.), to gain such a distanc…

A certificate that a ship or vessel has been cleared at the customhouse; permission to sail. Every ship was subject to seizure for want of stamped clearances. Durke

A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished.

To move of draw (a sail or yard) by means of the clew garnets, clew lines, etc.; esp. to draw up the clews of a square sail to the yard. To clew down (Naut.), to force (a yard) down by hauling on the clew lines. -- To clew up (Naut.), to draw (a sail) up to the yard, as for furling.

A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore- and-aft sail. (b.)

A vessel with a sharp bow, built and rigged for fast sailing. -- Clip"per-built` (, a.

d (Naut.), directed as nearly to the point from which the wind blows as it is possible to sail; closehauled; -- said of a vessel.