1) Boat 2) Boat type 3) Cutter 4) French word used in English 5) Light sailing ship 6) Motor launch 7) Small sailing boat 8) Small sailing craft 9) Tender
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A light boat propelled by sails or oars, used for travelling between ship and shore.
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[ship`s boat] As a ship`s boat the pinnace is a light boat, propelled by oars or sails, carried aboard merchant and war vessels in the Age of Sail to serve as a tender. The pinnace was usually rowed, and could be rigged with a sail for use in favorable winds. A pinnace would ferry passengers and mail, communicate between vessels, scout to s...
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small vessel with oars and sails
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• (n.) A man-of-war`s boat. • (n.) A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally, spynace or spyne. • (n.) A procuress; a pimp.
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1. A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; called originally, spynace or spyne. A man-of-war's boat. 'Whilst our pinnace anchors in the Downs.' (Shak) ... 2. A procuress; a pimp. ... Origin: F. Pinasse; cf. It. Pinassa, pinazza, Sp. Pinaza; all from L. Pinus a pine tree, anything made of pine,...
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Pin'nace noun [ French
pinasse ; confer Italian
pinassa ,
pinazza , Spanish
pinaza ; all from Latin
pinus a pine tree, anything made of pine, e.g., a ship. Confer
Pine a tree.]
1. (Nautical) (a) A small vessel propelled by sails or oar...
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The name pinnace was originally applied to a fully-rigged small vessel, used as a tender to a larger one. By the start of the 20th century the name in the British navy was applied to a boat provided with sails and oars, larger than a cutter and smaller than a launch. The navy pinnaces were rowed by ten to sixteen men and later the sails were replac...
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A light boat propelled by sails or oars, used as a tender for merchant and war vessels; a boat for communication between ship and shore.
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