ship

Roget category 273

2. Words relating to space
› 2.4. Motion
›› 2.4.1. Motion in general

#273. Ship

noun

ship, vessel, sail — craft, bottom.
navy, marine, fleet, flotilla — shipping.
man of war etc. (combatant) 726 — transport, tender, storeship^† — merchant ship, merchantman — packet, liner — whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter — fishing boat, pilot boat — trawler, hulk — yacht — baggala^† — floating hotel, floating palace — ocean greyhound.
ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig — brigantine, barkantine^† — schooner — topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner — chasse-maree [Fr.] — sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy^†, cat, buss — sailer, sailing vessel — windjammer — steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash — punch, thwack, whack — hit hard, strike hard — swap, batter, dowse^†, baste — pelt, patter, buffet, belabor — fetch one a blow — poke at, pip, ship of the line — destroyer, cruiser, frigate — landing ship, LST — aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop [Coll.], nuclear powered carrier — submarine, submersible, atomic submarine.
boat, pinnace, launch — life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, cock boat, ferry boat, canal boat — swamp boat, ark, bully, battery, bateau [Can.], broadhorn^†, dory, droger^†, drogher — dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot^† — shallop^†, gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble^†, punt, cog, kedge, lerret^† — eight oar, four oar, pair oar — randan^† — outrigger — float, raft, pontoon — prame^† — iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht.
catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft, coracle, gondola, carvel^†, caravel — felucca, caique^†, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe — galley, galleyfoist^† — bilander^†, dogger^†, hooker, howker^† — argosy, carack^† — galliass^†, galleon — polacca^†, polacre^†, tartane^†, junk, lorcha^†, praam^†, proa^†, prahu^†, saick^†, sampan, xebec, dhow — dahabeah^† — nuggah^† — kayak, keel boat [U.S.], log canoe, pirogue — quadrireme^†, trireme — stern-wheeler [U.S.] — wanigan^†, wangan [U.S.], wharf boat.
balloon — airship, aeroplane — biplane, monoplane, triplane^† — hydroplane — aerodrome — air balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon, dirigible, zeppelin — aerostat, Montgolfier — kite, parachute.
jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller plane — corporate plane, corporate jet, private plane, private aviation — airline, common carrier — fighter, bomber, fighter-bomber, escort plane, spy plane — supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft.

adverb

afloat, aboard — on board, on ship board — hard a lee, hard a port, hard a starboard, hard a weather.

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