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Fit to sail
Answer for the clue "Fit to sail ", 9 letters:
seaworthy
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Word definitions for seaworthy in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1807, "in fit condition to encounter heavy weather at sea," from sea + worthy . Related: Seaworthiness . Old English had særof "hardy at sea."
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Apart from needing varnish and loving care it looked seaworthy , but naturally there were no rowlocks and no oars. ▪ Charles had imagined Stark as the captain of an old but seaworthy vessel. ▪ Concordia is a name steeped ...
Usage examples of seaworthy.
Surely no seaworthy galleon had ever been outfitted for battle with the same equipage and weapons she possessed within her cache, but this fine vessel of womanly softness was rigged for a most unusual contest, the entrapment and studied rebuff of no pompous youth, but a man well versed in the art of seduction.
Abydus on the Hellespont to the Anatolian shore of the island of Lesbos just to the north of Mitylene was about a hundred miles, which, said the chief pilot when Caesar applied to him for the information, would take between five and ten days if the weather held and every ship was genuinely seaworthy.
MacKinnie buys the only seaworthy ship in the garrison town, and McLean improves its sailing capabilities with leeboards and more efficient sails, neither of which the Imperials recognize as technological improvements because they seem so primitive by space-faring standards.
But some was recent, and this was mostly English, for not only were there now far more English merchantmen than foreigners to be wrecked, but the Royal Navy, keeping the sea in all weathers, the whole year round, was fast wearing out, and although new ships were continually being built as fast as limited treasure and supplies would allow, many others had to be kept in active service when they were no longer seaworthy - thirteen had been lost this year, quite apart from those taken by the Americans or the French.
On spring weekends they bought plants at greenhouses in the suburbs and went to boatyards on City Island or the North Shore to help friends get their modest yachts seaworthy.
The design made it hard to rebalance the cargo at sea, but it also made the vessel extremely sturdy and seaworthy.
Attaleia announced its undying loyalty and gave Pompey twelve neat and seaworthy triremes together with a letter from his son Gnaeus, still on the island of Corcyra.
The Santo Domingan refugees were crowded on board every seaworthy vessel.
Then came the consideration that only two of the buccaneer ships were seaworthy – and these could not accommodate the whole force, particularly being at the moment indifferently victualed for a long voyage.
The yachtsmen sailed the dragon ship into a harbor near the tip of Long Island, finding in doing so that the ship was extremely seaworthy.