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  1. adj. nautical Having the bow of a boat facing directly into the wind

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  • “The boat was now very close, and I could make out plainly that it was lying head to wind and sea and dragging on its mast and sail, which had been thrown overboard and made to serve as a sea-anchor.”

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  1. in irons

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  1. luff
  2. tide-rode
  3. high
  4. tack
  5. head
  6. clubhaul
  7. cast
  1. boxing-off
  2. to luff round
  3. loof
  4. to lie to
  5. to haul the wind
  6. it irons
  7. Easter
  1. weather-cloth
  2. water-anchor
  3. wind-rode
  4. boxhaul
  5. overrake
  6. riding-sail
  7. smoke-sail
  1. fusee
  2. fuzee
  3. to heave a ship to
  4. drag
  5. drag sail
  6. iron
  7. stretch
  1. single
  2. to round to
  3. come
  4. draw
  5. hard
  6. head-cloth
  7. sea anchor
  1. shake
  2. piracy
  3. veer
  4. wear

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  1. nautical

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