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cat rig

noun

Definition of cat rig

as in yacht

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Noun

Rooms in beige and red or beige and blue have busy wallpaper—some have views of the sea, others of the yacht harbor.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 Sep. 2026
In 1966, an ambitious young businessman from Finland, Pekka Koskenkylä, decided to build yachts not from wood but out of a pioneering new material called fiberglass.

— Andrew Rice, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of yacht

Noun

In 1861, the first naval engagement since the start of the Civil War took place as the USS Colorado attacked and sank the Confederate private schooner Judah off the coast of Pensacola, Florida.

— ABC News, ABC News, 31 Aug. 2026
Harry Kane’s schooner sails well wide of all that poofterish fluff with buckles and straps.

— Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026

Definition of schooner

Noun

The Coast Guard reported on Friday morning that three cutters remain actively searching, and air and ocean surface searches were conducted overnight.

— Kathy Laskowski, Sun Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026
Royals starter Michael Wacha left a cutter in the middle of the strike zone.

— Chandler Rome, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of cutter

Noun

Sailing aboard a 30-foot sloop on Acapulco Bay, Henry Kissinger kept a protective arm around his new wife, as a motorboat filled with the press corps followed.

— Robert D. Mcfadden, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2026
Just two days after the Hannah was underway, her crew captured the Unity, a sloop loaded with naval stores and lumber, supplies sorely needed by British forces in Boston.

— Christopher Magra, The Conversation, 2 June 2026

Definition of sloop

Noun

Standing on the deck of a sleek catamaran gliding through the water, Sanghamitra Jena peers through the binoculars slung around her neck.

— Kalpana Sunder, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Sep. 2026
The ferry, a wide-bodied catamaran, had just left Kyrenia, known as Girne in Turkish, and was carrying many Turkish tourists returning from vacation.

— Andrew Wilks, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of catamaran

Noun

With navies built around corvette-class-sized ships, Finland and Sweden have successfully stood up to Russian pressure, harassing Russian submarines that have violated their territorial seas.

— HOLMES LIAO, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2026
Zelenskyy, who did not mention grain terminals, said Russia's Admiral Essen and Admiral Makarov frigates, a large landing ship, a corvette, and other vessels were struck in the attack.

— Sam Meredith, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of corvette

Noun

Astroscale’s business is focused on satellite servicing and mitigation of space junk, a segment of the market that matches well with rockets the size of Isar’s Spectrum for dedicated rides to orbit.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
The three scoured data collected by the Chandra space telescope between 1999 and 2017 and painstakingly filtered out any random artifacts and other junk.

— Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of junk

Noun

Houser served as their clipper ship, touching a career-best 98 mph with his fastball and extending a shutout into the eighth inning, and Dylan Smith converted a six-out save as the Giants held on for a 1-0 victory over the Cleveland Guardians.

— Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026
These describe everything from seeing a man carrying an aquarium filled with books to the experience of selecting the prettiest nail clipper from the shop.

— Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of clipper

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