sailing ship

ship that is propelled by means of sails

For history of "sailing ship" see shipbuilding. Sailing ship is now used to refer to any large, wind-powered, vessel. In technical terms, a ship was a sailing vessel with a specific rig of at least three masts, square rigged on all of them, making the sailing adjective redundant. In popular usage ship became associated with all large sailing vessels and when steam power came along the adjective became necessary. See also sailboat
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Noun
1. a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts
(synonym) sailing vessel
(hypernym) vessel, watercraft
(hyponym) bark, barque
(part-meronym) boom
(class) weatherly