society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > get into the current of the wind [verb (transitive)] > cause to fall off or to leeward (3)
transitive. Nautical. To cause (a ship, a ship's course) to turn to leeward; = to pay off at phrasal verbs. Obsolete. rare.
transitive. Nautical. To cause (a ship, a ship's course) to turn to leeward. Obsolete.