sailing ship
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2.9
- noun
- /ˈseɪlɪŋ ʃɪp/
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velero
- The landscape is dominated by sailing ships and fortified factories surmounted by European flags.
- a sailing ship from the century
Examples
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The harbor is crowded with the high masts of sailing ships.
Fiction book (2002) -
The largest pure sailing ships ever built were used to haul ore, coal, and oil.
Blog text (8) -
I had to go across the sea in a sailing ship.
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- There was a big sailing ship.
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Twelve weeks on a sailing ship.
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Or is there a sailing ship that will liberate me?
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The men walked toward a small sailing ship docked at the wharf.
Fiction book (1992) -
A real eighteenth-century sailing ship, churning the rough water of the Atlantic.
Fiction book (1994) -
Nelson sends a fast sailing ship to carry his reports back to England and by sheer good chance it spots Villeneuve's fleet in the Atlantic.
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The men walked toward a small sailing ship docked at the wharf.
Synonyms
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9.3
A sailing ship with two or more masts and a shorter front mast
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7.0
A large fast sailing ship with tall masts used for long sea journeys
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9.6
A sailing ship with two masts and square sails on both
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3.7
A boat with sails that uses wind to move
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9.9
A large sailing ship with several masts and square sails
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9.9
A sailing ship with three or more masts, the rear mast having sails along the ship and the others across
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9.9
A ship with large square sails hung on horizontal bars across the masts
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'sailing' (related to traveling by sail) with 'ship' (a vessel): together they describe a ship propelled by sails. This modifier+noun composition is transparent and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Sailing ship comes from the simple picture of a large ship with many sails catching the wind to move it. So it means 'a large ship moved by sails', often with more than one mast.