Definitions for Pinnace
ˈpɪn ɪspin·nace

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. tender, ship's boat, pinnace, cutternoun

   a boat for communication between ship and shore

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pinnacenoun

   A light boat, traditionally propelled by sails, but may also be a rowboat. Pinnaces are usually messenger boats, carrying messages among the larger ships of a fleet.

2. Etymology: From pinasse, from pinaza, from pino + -aza.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pinnacenoun

   A boat belonging to a ship of war. It seems formerly to have signified rather a small sloop or bark attending a larger ship.

   Etymology: pinasse, Fr. pinnacia, Italian; pinaça, Span.

   Whilst our pinnace anchors in the downs,
   Here shall they make their ransom on the sand. William Shakespeare.

   For fear of the Turks great fleet, he came by night in a small pinnace to the Rhodes. Richard Knolles, Hist. of the Turks.

   I sent a pinnace or post of advice, to make a discovery of the coast, before I adventured my greater ship. Henry Spelman.

   Thus to ballast love,
   I saw I had love’s pinnace overfraught. John Donne.

   I discharged a bark, taken by one of my pinnaces, coming from cape Blanch. Walter Raleigh, Apology.

   A pinnace anchors in a craggy bay. John Milton.

   Swift as a swallow sweeps the liquid way,
   The winged pinnace shot along the sea. Alexander Pope.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pinnace

   A pinnace is a type of small, lightweight sailing ship that was commonly used as a tender for larger vessels during the 16th to 19th century. It is usually designed with two masts and it is often used for exploration, transportation, or communication between larger ships and the shore.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pinnacenoun

   a small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally, spynace or spyne

2. Pinnacenoun

   a man-of-war's boat

3. Pinnacenoun

   a procuress; a pimp

4. Etymology: [F. pinasse; cf. It. pinassa, pinazza, Sp. pinaza; all from L. pinus a pine tree, anything made of pine, e.g., a ship. Cf. Pine a tree.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pinnace

   As a ship's boat the pinnace is a light boat, propelled by oars or sails, carried aboard merchant and war vessels in the Age of Sail to serve as a tender. The pinnace was usually rowed, and could be rigged with a sail for use in favorable winds. A pinnace would ferry passengers and mail, communicate between vessels, scout to sound anchorages, convey water and provisions, or carry armed sailors for cutting-out expeditions. The Spanish favored them as lightweight smuggling vessels while the Dutch used them as raiders. In modern parlance, pinnace has come to mean a boat associated with some kind of larger vessel, that doesn't fit under the launch or lifeboat definitions.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Pinnace

   pin′ās, n. a small vessel with oars and sails: a boat with eight oars: a man-of-war's boat. [Fr. pinasse—It. pinassa—L. pinus, a pine.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. pinnace

   A small vessel propelled with oars and sails, of two, and even three masts, schooner-rigged. In size, as a ship's boat, smaller than the barge, and, like it, carvel-built. The armed pinnace of the French coasts was of 60 or 80 tons burden, carrying one long 24-pounder and 100 men. In Henry VI. Shakspeare makes the pinnace an independent vessel, though Falstaff uses it as a small vessel attending on a larger. Also, metaphorically, an indifferent character.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Pinnace in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Pinnace in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Pinnace
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Pinnace
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Pinnace
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Pinnace
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Pinnace
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Pinnace
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=Pinnace