ahulladv.
/əˈhʌl/, U.S. /əˈhəl/ Nautical.
Of a ship: so as to float or drift solely with the force of the wind or current on the hull, i.e. with the sails furled or the engines turned off. Chiefly with lie. Cf. hull n.2 2.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > [adverb] > with sails furled and helm lashed
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1578 T. Ellis True Rep. Last Voy. Meta Incognita sig. Bii The Rearadmirall and the Beare got themselues cleare without danger of yce and rocks, strooke their sailes and lay a hull.
a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 78 Then wee lay a hull till wee gott a new maine course to the yard.
a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) II. 316 Sometimes a-try and sometimes a-hull we busked it out.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship II. 244* A-hull, the situation of a ship, when all her sails are furled and her helm is lashed to the lee-side; by which she lies nearly with her side to the wind and sea, her head being somewhat inclined to the direction of the wind.
1812 P. Cuffe Jrnl. 7 Apr. in R. C. Wiggins Captain Paul Cuffe's Logs & Lett. (1996) vi. 208 After the foog Lifted Saw Several Sail also Saw a Schooner Laying a hull.
1856 N. N. W. Meissner Compl. Dict. Eng. & German II. 180/2 Beiliegen.., to try, lie, or strike ahull or under bare poles.
1974 R. Swale Children of Cape Horn (1975) xvi. 133 Anneliese was slithering up and down the waves now she lay ahull.
2010 M. J. Tougias Overboard ix. 55 Tom decides to lie ahull, turning off the engine and letting the boat simply ride the waves.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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