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BECALM | Deprive a vessel of wind | |
WEATHERBOARD | That side of a vessel which is toward the wind; the windward side. | |
CAST | To turn the head of a vessel around from the wind in getting under weigh. | |
JAM | To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback. | |
BLANKET | To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of her. | |
ENLARGE | To get more astern or parallel with the vessel's course; to draw aft; -- said of the wind. | |
STAY | To tack, as a vessel, so that the other side of the vessel shall be presented to the wind. | |
AGITATE | To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. | |
DRIFT | The distance to which a vessel is carried off from her desired course by the wind, currents, or other causes. | |
CLOSEHAULED | Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel. | |
SAILING | The act of one who, or that which, sails; the motion of a vessel on water, impelled by wind or steam; the act of starting on a voyage. | |
JIBE | To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe. | |
LUFF | To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind. | |
LEE | Of or pertaining to the part or side opposite to that against which the wind blows; -- opposed to weather; as, the lee side or lee rail of a vessel. | |
LOOF | Formerly, some appurtenance of a vessel which was used in changing her course; -- probably a large paddle put over the lee bow to help bring her head nearer to the wind. | |
EMPTY | To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern. | |
WIND-RODE | Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other. | |
BOXHAUL | To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind). | |
GYBE | To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side. | |
SEA | The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion of the water's surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea. | |
GAUGE | Relative positions of two or more vessels with reference to the wind; as, a vessel has the weather gauge of another when on the windward side o... | |
MOVE | To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to st... | |
TACK | The direction of a vessel in regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack; -- the former when she is closehauled with ... | |
WEAR | To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her... | |
CLUBHAUL | To put on the other tack by dropping the lee anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails (which brings the vessel's head to the wind), and b... |