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Weatherly   /wˈɛðərli/   Listen
Weatherly

adjective
1.
(of a sailing vessel) making very little leeway when close-hauled.





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"Weatherly" Quotes from Famous Books



... ascertain if anything could be seen of the wreck of our spars. Nothing was visible. From the main-top, I could command a pretty wide horizon; but the ocean lay a bright, glittering blank, the crests of its own waves excepted. I felt certain the Dawn was so weatherly, that the spars were to leeward; but the ship must have forged miles ahead, during the last twelve hours; and there was almost the equal certainty of her being a long distance to the southward of the floating hamper, her head ...
— Miles Wallingford - Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" • James Fenimore Cooper
... Swash was under much reduced canvas, she glided along with great ease and with considerable rapidity of motion. The heavy night air kept her canvas distended, and the weatherly set of the tide, trifling as it yet was, pressed her up against the breeze, so as to turn all to account. It was apparent enough, by the manner in which objects on the land were passed, that the crisis was fast approaching. Rose rejoined her aunt, ...
— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper


Words linked to "Weatherly" :   weatherliness, sailing vessel, sailing ship


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