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n. The act of sailing closer into the wind.

n. The forward side of a fore-and-aft sail.

n. Archaic The fullest part of the bow of a ship.

verb-intransitive. To steer a sailing vessel closer into the wind, especially with the sails flapping.

verb-intransitive. To flap while losing wind. Used of a sail.

v. To sail (a vessel, such as a yacht) closer into the wind during a race so as to prevent an opponent's craft from passing on the windward side.

v. To raise or lower (the boom of a crane or derrick).

n. The vertical edge of a sail that is closest to the direction of the wind.

v. To shake due to being trimmed improperly.

v. To alter course to windward so that the sails luff. (Alternatively luff up)

v. To alter the vertical angle of the jib of a crane so as to bring it level with the load.

n. The side of a ship toward the wind.

n. The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.

n. The roundest part of a ship's bow.

n. The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.

verb-intransitive. 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.

verb-intransitive. To flutter or shake from being aligned close to the direction of the wind; -- said of a sail.

n. A variant of loof.

n. The wooden case in which the light is carried in the sport of lowbelling.

n. Nautical

n. The fullest and broadest part of a vessel's bow; the loof.

n. The weather-gage, or part of a ship toward the wind.

n. The sailing of a ship close to the wind.

n. The weather part of a fore-and-aft sail, or the side next the mast or stay to which it is attached.

n. A luff-tackle.

Naut., to bring the head of (a vessel) nearer to the wind.

To steer or come nearer to the wind.

n. Lieutenant: as, he is first luff.

To lift (the boom of a derrick).

n. (nautical) the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is next to the mast

v. sail close to the wind

v. flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides

n. the act of sailing close to the wind

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