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steep-to, a. Naut.
[f. steep a. + to adv.]
(See quot. 1815.)
1748Anson's Voy. ii. iii. 139 The coast was very high and steep to. Ibid. 141 This Island towards the harbour is steep to, and has six fathom water close to the shore. 1815Falconer's Dict. Marine (ed. Burney) s.v., A Shore Steep-to..is said of a shore when it descends almost perpendicularly into the water. 1897F. T. Bullen Cruise of ‘Cachalot’ 24 These islands have long been a nursery for whale-fishers, because the cachalot loves their steep-to shores. |