Lexic.us

Definition of Sailboat

1. Noun. A small sailing vessel; usually with a single mast.

Definition of Sailboat

1. n. A boat propelled by a sail or sails.

Definition of Sailboat

1. Noun. a boat propelled by sails ¹

2. Noun. (slang) a playing card with the rank of four ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sailboat

1. a boat that sails [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sailboat

Literary usage of Sailboat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Everyday Arithmetic by Franklin Sherman Hoyt, Harriet E. Peet (1920)
"Making a Boy's sailboat [Without pencil.] 1. Tom found a piece of timber If feet long. He cut off •J foot from the length of the timber and whittled the ..."

2. Junior Science by John Charles Hessler (1921)
"How Does a sailboat Use the Wind? —Have you ever watched a sailboat (Fig. 214) making a landing? (Courtesy of AM Lythgoe, ..."

3. Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports: Supplementary to Rose's by Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court, Walter Malins Rose (1905)
"sailboat has responsibility. Approved in The Europa, 116 Fed. ... 708, holding act of sailboat in attempting to cross bow of steamer was a culpable ..."

4. A Summer and Winter on Hudson Bay by Charles Kenneth Leith, Arthur T. Leith (1912)
"THE WRECK OF THE sailboat The third day the start was made with little better prospects. In some ten hours' work we made nearly fifteen miles south. ..."

5. Heath Readers: Primer [-sixth] Reader by D.C. Heath and Company (1903)
"He has a pretty sailboat. It has large, white sails. How fast the boat sails! Why does Ned use a string? So that he can pull his boat to shore when he ..."

6. Everyday Arithmetic by Franklin Sherman Hoyt, Harriet E. Peet (1920)
"Making a Boy's sailboat [Without pencil.] 1. Tom found a piece of timber If feet long. He cut off •J foot from the length of the timber and whittled the ..."

7. Junior Science by John Charles Hessler (1921)
"How Does a sailboat Use the Wind? —Have you ever watched a sailboat (Fig. 214) making a landing? (Courtesy of AM Lythgoe, ..."

8. Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports: Supplementary to Rose's by Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court, Walter Malins Rose (1905)
"sailboat has responsibility. Approved in The Europa, 116 Fed. ... 708, holding act of sailboat in attempting to cross bow of steamer was a culpable ..."

9. A Summer and Winter on Hudson Bay by Charles Kenneth Leith, Arthur T. Leith (1912)
"THE WRECK OF THE sailboat The third day the start was made with little better prospects. In some ten hours' work we made nearly fifteen miles south. ..."

10. Heath Readers: Primer [-sixth] Reader by D.C. Heath and Company (1903)
"He has a pretty sailboat. It has large, white sails. How fast the boat sails! Why does Ned use a string? So that he can pull his boat to shore when he ..."

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