= becalm, v.
| 单词 | θ203293 | 
| 释义 | society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > get into the current of the wind			[verb (transitive)]		 > keep wind from a ship or becalm (5)		 encalm1562 = becalm, v. becalmc1595 Nautical. To shelter from, or deprive (a ship) of, wind; usually in passive to be becalmed: to lie motionless for want of wind. beleea1616 transitive. To get (a ship) into such a position that the wind is intercepted from her; also figurative. calma1616 To delay (a ship) by a calm; to becalm. blanket1884 Yachting. To cover a yacht with the sail of another passing to windward; to take the wind out of the sails of. Also figurative. | 
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