Definition of "clipper ship" []

• A fast sailing ship used in former times (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "There were pistols in Orlov's belt and a clipper ship in the background."
• "Anxiously his fingers reached up and touched the half-coin that was on the heavy thong around his neck under his shirt, a coin like that his illustrious ancestor, Wu Fang Choi, had called upon to claim a clipper ship to rival the finest in Dirk Struan's fleet."