Roget's Thesaurus: Entry 273 (Ship)

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#273. Ship. -- N. ship, vessel, sail; craft, bottom.

navy, marine, fleet, flotilla; shipping.

man of war &c. (combatant) 726; transport, tender, storeship[obs]; merchant ship, merchantman; packet, liner; whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter; fishing boat, pilot boat; trawler, hulk; yacht; baggala[obs]; floating hotel, floating palace; ocean greyhound.

ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine[obs]; 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[obs], cat, buss; sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner, cruisp, flap, dab, pat, thump, beat, blow, bang, slam, dash; punch, thwack, whack; hit hard, strike hard; swap, batter, dowse|, baste; pelt, patter, buffet, belabor; fetch one a blow; poke at, pip, ship of the line; destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST[abbr]; 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 oat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully [Nfld.], bateau battery[Can.], broadhorn[obs], dory, droger[obs], drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot[obs]; shallop[obs], gig, funny, skiff, dingy, scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble[obs], punt, cog, kedge, lerret[obs]; eight oar, four oar, pair oar; randan[obs]; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame[obs]; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht.

catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft,coracle, gondola, carvel[obs], caravel; felucca, caique[obs], canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe,; galley, galleyfoist[obs]; bilander[obs], dogger[obs], hooker, howker[obs]; argosy, carack[obs]; galliass[obs], galleon; polacca[obs], polacre[obs], tartane[obs], junk, lorcha[obs], praam[obs], proa[obs], prahu[obs], saick[obs], sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah[obs]; nuggah[obs]; kayak, keel boat [U.S.], log canoe, pirogue; quadrireme[obs], trireme; stern-wheeler [U.S.]; wanigan[obs], wangan [obs][U.S.], wharf boat.

balloon; airship, aeroplane; biplane, monoplane, triplane[obs]; 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.