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 > cause to sail off the wind or to leeward (1)
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Nautical. transitive. To cause to sail ‘off the wind’ or to leeward. intransitive, to sail off the wind or to leeward.