ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

sleeping car, sleeper, dome car; surface car, tram car, trolley car; box car, box wagon;
horse car [U.S.]; bullet train, shinkansen [Jap.], cannonball, the Wabash cannonball,
lightning express; luggage van; mail, mail car, mail van.
shovel, spool, spatula, ladle, hod, hoe; spade, spaddle † , loy † ; spud; pitchfork; post hole
digger.
[powered construction vehicles] tractor, steamshovel, backhoe, fork lift, earth mover,
dump truck, bulldozer, grader, caterpillar, trench digger, steamroller; pile driver; crane,
wrecking crane.
273. Ship -- N. ship, vessel, sail; craft, bottom.
navy, marine, fleet, flotilla; shipping.
man of war &c (combatant) 726; transport, tender, storeship † ; merchant ship,
merchantman; packet, liner; whaler, slaver, collier, coaster, lighter; fishing boat, pilot
boat; trawler, hulk; yacht; baggala † ; floating hotel, floating palace; ocean greyhound.
ship, bark, barque, brig, snow, hermaphrodite brig; brigantine, barkantine † ; schooner;
topsail schooner, for and aft schooner, three masted schooner; chasse-maree [Fr.]; sloop,
cutter, corvette, clipper, foist, yawl, dandy, ketch, smack, lugger, barge, hoy † , cat, buss;
sailer, sailing vessel; windjammer; steamer, steamboat, steamship, liner, ocean liner,
cruiseship, ship of the line; mail steamer, paddle steamer, screw steamer; tug; line of
steamers &c. destroyer, cruiser, frigate; landing ship, LST; aircraft carrier, carrier, flattop
[Coll.], nuclear powered carrier; submarine, submersible, atomic submarine.
boat, pinnace, launch; life boat, long boat, jolly boat, bum boat, fly boat, cock boat,
ferry boat, canal boat; swamp boat, ark, bully, battery, bateau [Can.], broadhorn † , dory,
droger † , drogher; dugout, durham boat, flatboat, galiot † ; shallop † , gig, funny, skiff, dingy,
scow, cockleshell, wherry, coble † , punt, cog, kedge, lerret † ; eight oar, four oar, pair oar;
randan † ; outrigger; float, raft, pontoon; prame † ; iceboat, ice canoe, ice yacht.
catamaran, hydroplane, hovercraft, coracle, gondola, carvel † , caravel; felucca, caique † ,
canoe, birch bark canoe, dugout canoe; galley, galleyfoist † ; bilander † , dogger † , hooker,
howker † ; argosy, carack † ; galliass † , galleon; polacca † , polacre † , tartane † , junk, lorcha † ,
praam † , proa † , prahu † , saick † , sampan, xebec, dhow; dahabeah † ; nuggah † ; kayak, keel
boat [U.S.], log canoe, pirogue; quadrireme † , trireme; stern-wheeler [U.S.]; wanigan † ,
wangan [U.S.], wharf boat.
balloon; airship, aeroplane; biplane, monoplane, triplane † ; hydroplane; aerodrome; air
balloon, pilot balloon, fire balloon, dirigible, zeppelin; aerostat, Montgolfier; kite,
parachute.
jet plane, rocket plane, jet liner, turbojet, prop-jet, propeller plane; corporate plane,
corporate jet, private plane, private aviation; airline, common carrier; fighter, bomber,
fighter-bomber, escort plane, spy plane; supersonic aircraft, subsonic aircraft.
Adv. afloat, aboard; on board, on ship board; hard a lee, hard a port, hard a starboard,
hard a weather.
2. DEGREES OF MOTION
274. Velocity -- N. velocity, speed, celerity; swiftness &c adj.; rapidity, eagle speed;
expedition &c (activity) 682; pernicity † ; acceleration; haste &c 684.