Vocabulary Word
Word: capsize
Definition: (of a boat) turn over
Definition: (of a boat) turn over
Sentences Containing 'capsize'
said Flask, coiling some spare line in the boat's bow, "did you never hear that the ship which but once has a Sperm Whale's head hoisted on her starboard side, and at the same time a Right Whale's on the larboard; did you never hear, Stubb, that that ship can never afterwards capsize?"
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