navy, marine, fleet, flotilla; shipping.
man of war &c (combatant) 726; transport, tender, storeship†;
merchant ship, merchantman; packet, liner; whaler, slaver, collier,
coaster, lighter; fishing boat, pilot boat; trawler, hulk; yacht;
baggala†; floating hotel, floating palace; ocean greyhound.
ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine,
barkantine†; schooner; topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three
masted schooner; chasse-maree [Fr.]; sloop, cutter, corvette, clipper,
foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy†, cat, buss;
sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship,
liner, ocean liner, cruiseship, ship of the line; mail steamer, paddle
steamer, screw steamer; tug; line of steamers &c. destroyer, cruiser,
frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop [Coll.],
nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine.
boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat,
fly boat, cock boat, ferry boat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully,
battery, bateau [Can.], broadhorn†, dory, droger†, drogher; dugout,
durham boat, flatboat, galiot†; shallop†, gig, funny, skiff, dingy,
scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble†, punt, cog, kedge, lerret†; eight oar,
four oar, pair oar; randan†; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame†;
iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht.
catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft, coracle, gondola, carvel†,
caravel; felucca, caique†, canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe;
galley, galleyfoist†; bilander†, dogger†, hooker, howker†; argosy,
carack†; galliass†, galleon; polacca†, polacre†, tartane†, junk, lorcha†,
praam†, proa†, prahu†, saick†, sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah†; nuggah†;
kayak, keel boat [U.S.], log canoe, pirogue; quadrireme†, trireme;
stern-wheeler [U.S.]; wanigan†, wangan [U.S.], wharf boat.
balloon; airship, aeroplane; biplane, monoplane, triplane†;
hydroplane; aerodrome; air balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon,
dirigible, zeppelin; aerostat, Montgolfier; kite, parachute.
jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller
plane; corporate plane, corporate jet, private plane, private aviation;
airline, common carrier; fighter, bomber, fighter-bomber, escort plane,
spy plane; supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft.
Adv. afloat, aboard; on board, on ship board; hard a lee, hard a port,
hard a starboard, hard a weather.