tack windward
81lee — Synonyms and related words: cover, defense, eye, flanking, glancing, guard, lateral, lee sheet, lee shore, lee side, lee tack, leeward, next beside, preservation, protection, protective custody, refuge, safekeeping, safety, shade, shadow, shelter …
82ply — Synonyms and related words: about ship, apply pressure, back and fill, bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about, beat to windward, beset, besiege, blandish, boat, box off, break, bring about, bring round, bug, buttonhole, cajole,… …
83busker — (n.) itinerant entertainer, 1857, from busk (v.) to offer goods for sale only in bars and taprooms, 1851 (in Mayhew), perhaps from busk to cruise as a pirate, which was used in a figurative sense by 1841, in reference to people living shifless… …
84beat — [[t]bit[/t]] v. beat, beat•en beat, beat•ing 1) to strike forcefully and repeatedly: to beat a toy drum[/ex] 2) cvb to hit (a person or animal) repeatedly so as to cause painful injury; thrash (often fol. by up) 3) to dash against: rain beating… …
85board — [[t]bɔrd, boʊrd[/t]] n. 1) bui a long rectangular piece of wood sawed thin 2) bui a flat slab of wood or other hard material for some specific purpose: a cutting board; a diving board[/ex] 3) a sheet of wood, cardboard, etc., often with markings …
86beat — [c]/bit / (say beet) verb (beat, beaten or beat, beating) –verb (t) 1. to strike repeatedly and usually violently. 2. to thrash, cane, or flog, as a punishment. 3. to whisk; stir, as in order to thicken or aerate: to beat cream; to beat eggwhites …
87board — /bɔd / (say bawd) noun 1. a piece of timber sawn thin, and of considerable length and breadth compared with the thickness. 2. (plural) Theatre the stage. 3. a. Also, shearing board. in a shearing shed, the clear part of the floor on which the… …
88flat — I. /flæt / (say flat) adjective (flatter, flattest) 1. level, even, or without inequalities of surface, as land, etc. 2. horizontally level: a flat roof. 3. comparatively lacking in projection or depression of surface: a broad flat face. 4. (of a …
89half board — noun : a maneuver of luffing a boat sailing close hauled so that it shoots into the wind but before it has quite lost headway of putting the helm up again and letting the boat fill away on the same tack * * * demi pension (def. 1). [1970 75] * *… …
90club-haul — clubˈ haul transitive verb (nautical) To tack, esp in an emergency, by dropping the lee anchor and hauling in the anchor cable to bring the stern of the boat to windward • • • Main Entry: ↑club …
