xebec

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Noun
  • Researchers discovered a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan 140 years ago, ending decades of searches for the elusive ghost ship.
    Staff, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
  • On June 28, the team discovered the ship, a 144-foot-long schooner – a type of sailing vessel with two or more masts – that sank to the bottom of Lake Michigan in 1886.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Throughout it there are forts, full-size wooden galleons and signs hung on what appear to be Persian rugs.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Contemporary sources suggested that cannon fire struck a stash of gunpowder aboard the San José, triggering a massive explosion that caused the ship to sink, but more recent research points to the galleon splitting open.
    Aurora Martínez, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Inspired by the original 1926 Q Class sloop, known as Q7 Falcon, aka Lively Lady, which Peter sails regularly around San Diego.
    Kathleen Turner, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • From Ocean Swell to Living-Room Calm Industrial designer Roey Pan sketched the first arc aboard a 27-ft sloop, tracing the way a mainsail breathes with the wind.
    Malana VanTyler, USA Today, 23 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • On December 4, 1872, sailors aboard the Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia spotted a ship named the Mary Celeste in the distance.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Moreland, who has more than 30 years experience sailing topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques, as well as five world voyages under his belt, said the Picton Castle will be hosting a range of school groups on the vessel.
    Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 6 Mar. 2018
Noun
  • Several other countries have contributed anti-drone assets, and an air defense frigate operated by NATO's Maritime Command (MARCOM) arrived in Copenhagen on Sunday as part of the alliance's Baltic Sentry initiative.
    Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Back on the Danish frigate, in the Nuuk Fjord, flanked by Greenland’s bleak mountains of sheer black rock, the boom of practicing naval artillery guns reverberates into the Arctic abyss, as fighter jets scream overhead.
    Matthew Chance, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The Panamax ketch features a sleek aluminum exterior, with a displacement hull and a distinctive pointed bow.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 8 July 2025
  • And through such buffetings Constance’s little ketch had run aground.
    Jim Shepard, New Yorker, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • Amidst these displays is also, inexplicably, a poster of her and John on a yacht and at a Utah Jazz game (which Bronwyn points out isn’t courtside).
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Ximena is Alia’s first new yacht of 2025, but more fleet members are on the horizon.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • About a half hour after takeoff, an oven in the Boeing 737-800's forward galley caught on fire.
    Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The new device prevents passengers from entering the front galley adjacent to the flight deck when a pilot needs to leave the cockpit to use the restroom or for any other reason during a flight.
    Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Xebec.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/xebec. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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