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Definition of Clipper ship
1. Noun. A fast sailing ship used in former times.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clipper Ship
Literary usage of Clipper ship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Economic History of the United States by Ernest Ludlow Bogart (1912)
"... blocks and mechanical appliances reduced the number of seamen to two thirds
those required on a foreign AMERICAN clipper ship , The square-rigged vessel ..."
2. Marine Insurance: Its Principles and Practice by William D. Winter (1919)
"The clipper ship and Insurance Frauds.—The merchant marine had been gradually
... Models were improved as time went on and finally the clipper ship, ..."
3. Report of the Select Committee of the Senate of the United States on the by United States, Hamilton Fish, Senate, Congress (1854)
"By the rule of tonnage, a clipper ship would be allowed double the number that
she would be entitled to under the present regulation, or would be able to ..."
4. Recollections of a Rebel Reefer by James Morris Morgan (1917)
"CHAPTER XV "Tempest in a teapot" — Capture clipper ship George Griswold of New
York — Burn bark Good Hope of Boston — Funeral at sea — Bark Seaver goes to ..."
5. Principles of Ocean Transportation by Emory Richard Johnson, Grover Gerhardt Huebner (1918)
"The largest clipper ship ever constructed was the Great Republic (see ...
A clipper ship DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOONERS Since 1858, and particularly since the ..."
6. The Memorial History of the City of New-York: From Its First Settlement to by James Grant Wilson (1893)
"THE clipper ship DREADNAUGHT. 1 The Sword-Fish made the voyage from Shanghai to
San Francisco in thirty-one days, at the average rate of 240 miles a day — a ..."
7. Mechanics' and Engineers' Pocket-book of Tables, Rules, and Formulas by Charles Haynes Haswell (1893)
"853, Trade Wind (clipper ship), of NY, San Francisco, Cal., to New York, N. Y,
... 354, Red Jacket (clipper ship), of NY, Sandy Hook, NJ, to Melbourne, ..."
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