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Grammar : Noun

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Définition of tall ship

  • As in sailboat : noun a boat propelled with wind by sailcloth
Example sentences :
  • Over went the tall ship; down, down, the raging tempest pressed her.
  • Extract from : « Paul Gerrard » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • And I have to sell without delay a tall ship, cargo and all, as she stands.
  • Extract from : « The Lady of Lynn » by Walter Besant
  • Then, like a tall ship at sea, it sank altogether out of sight.
  • Extract from : « Joan of the Sword Hand » by S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett
  • You see there lying about the timbers of more than one tall ship.
  • Extract from : « Prose Idylls » by Charles Kingsley
  • Arriving at Sierra Leone, they found a tall ship lying at anchor.
  • Extract from : « The Pirates' Who's Who » by Philip Gosse
  • She was a tall ship, too, and she had as much canvas spread as we had.
  • Extract from : « Sheila of Big Wreck Cove » by James A. Cooper
  • It is a tall ship on an easy bow-line, with every thing set that will draw.
  • Extract from : « The Red Rover » by James Fenimore Cooper
  • She came along with the fluttering assurance of some tall ship.
  • Extract from : « Ann Veronica » by H. G. Wells
  • This tall ship was commanded by Captain Thomas Fleming, who had been stationed on the look-out to the eastward.
  • Extract from : « How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • "A tall ship" meant a stout and sea-worthy ship; "a tall man," meant a man that was at once able-bodied and true-hearted.
  • Extract from : « Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. IX.--February, 1851.--Vol. II. » by Various
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