Pinnace

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A light boat propelled by sails or oars, formerly used as a tender for merchant and war vessels.
  • n. Any of various kinds of ship's boats.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A light boat, traditionally propelled by sails, but may also be a rowboat. Pinnaces are usually messenger boats, carrying messages among the larger ships of a fleet.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n.
  • 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 man-of-war's boat.
  • n. A procuress; a pimp.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Nautical: A small vessel, generally with two masts rigged like those of a schooner, and capable of being propelled by oars; a galley: so called because built of pine wood; poetically, any light sailing-vessel.
  • n. A large double-banked ship's boat.
  • n. A procuress; a prostitute.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a boat for communication between ship and shore
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    boat   
    Variant
    spynace    spyne   
    Hyponym
    gig   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    procuress    pimp   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    yawl    sloop    yacht    longboat    skiff    barge    flagship    lifeboat    brig    cutter