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pinnace
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pinnace \Pin"nace\, n. [F. pinasse; cf. It. pinassa, pinazza, Sp. pinaza; all from L. pinus a pine tree, anything made of pine, e.g., a ship. Cf. Pine a tree.] (Naut.) A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) 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.
WordNet
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n. a boat for communication between ship and shore [syn: tender , ship's boat , cutter ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
As a ship's boat , the pinnace is a light boat , propelled by oars or sails , carried aboard merchant and war vessels in the Age of Sail to serve as a tender . The pinnace was usually rowed but could be rigged with a sail for use in favorable winds. A pinnace ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
small, light vessel, 1540s, from Middle French pinace (earlier spinace , 15c., from Old French espinace , Modern French péniche ; also attested as Anglo-Latin spinachium (mid-14c.)); of unknown origin. The French word perhaps is from Italian pinaccia or ...
Usage examples of pinnace.
The officer gestured, and the two sailors perched in the banyan branches above the pinnace put up their rifles.
Enobarbus turned to give his orders, and at that moment one of the sailors perched in the branches of the banyan to which the pinnace was moored cried out.
The pinnace was sliding away from the banyan tree, leaving the burning skiff behind.
The pinnace is to remain at the cave at Cala Blau from the coming midnight until the following sunset, when, unless it receives orders, it is to rejoin the ship at the rendezvous I have marked here.
Roman communications, the pinnace which rowed back and forth between Portus Itius and Britannia with a dozen kegs of nails going out and messages going in.
Pinnace was past away, there was a deep silence in the valley, she askt of Daphnis, Whether there was another Sea beyond the Promontore, and another Ship did passe by there?
I threaded my way through the crowds to Tower Wharf, where dozens of lighters and pinnaces were gathered beside the quays like herds of patient livestock.
She had done well as she ungrappled, shifted the pinnace to provide a better purchase on the yacht, engaged the grapples again, and fired the main engine.
In a hollow, distant enough to be concealed from the pinnace, Metra squatted and began to draw on the damp sand.
Breasting the whirlwind with impetuous flight, The pinnace, oared by those enchanted wings, Clove the fierce streams towards their upper springs.
He was right, and, as in a dream, I saw hurrying and palpitating up the same little pinnace that had towed us out of Bensersiel.
I know not by what favorable allowance of transports, victuallers, and pinnaces, our reason, or even our fancy, can be reconciled to the stupendous account of fifteen hundred vessels, which is proposed by a Byzantine historian.
The name pinnace was applied to vessels having a wide range in tonnage, etc.
Then the camera pinnace, hovering a prudent fifty miles away, zoomed in to the limit of its magnification, and the hoop became an enormous puffy doughnut, bumpy with outside structures, and the stick swelled to an immense cylindrical shaft, festooned with spherical tanks and sporting irregular bulges.
Now she thought pirates confronted by a Royal Manticoran Navy heavy cruiser would worry about chasing down a single pinnace?