studding

synonyms for studding

On this page you'll find 90 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to studding, such as: besmirch, bespatter, blot, blotch, dapple, and dirty.

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The Cashmere, little moved by the wind, had set her topsail and studding-sails to catch the breeze.

He could see the Cashmere run out her lower studding-sails and her staysails, to take advantage of the rising wind.

The studding-sails were rigged out, and various strange-shaped sails were set between the masts and above and below the bowsprit.

THE MISSING SHIPW. H. G. KINGSTON

It is used for concrete forms, sheathing, studding and for dairy containers and packages that must be odorless and tasteless.

And forthwith the mate put in a pleasant hour decking the ship with her larboard studding-sails, from the royals down.

Studding-sails are rather ungainly things to handle in a quickly freshening breeze, if one happens to be at all short-handed.

When the plunge was made into the sea, Sailing-Master Clemson seized a studding-sail boom, in company with five of the seamen.

Studding sails are sails set between the edges of the chief square sails during a fair wind.

While this was doing, down came all the studding-sails together, much as a bird shuts its wings.

MILES WALLINGFORDJAMES FENIMORE COOPER

A good-sized ship was made astern, coming up channel before the wind, and carrying top-mast studding-sails.

MILES WALLINGFORDJAMES FENIMORE COOPER

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OCTOBER 26, 1985