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单词 luff round or alee
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luff round or alee
1. intransitive. To bring the head of a ship nearer to the wind; to steer or sail nearer the wind; to sail in a specified direction with the head kept close to the wind. Also with adverbs, †by, in, off, to, up, etc. luff round or alee: see quot. 1769.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > luff or turn to windward
luff1390
to spring one's luff1591
to clap on (or by) a wind1627
to close the wind1673
to haul the (her, our, etc.) wind1726
to come up1743
to throw (a ship) up in (also into, on) the wind1750
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 369 So nyh the weder thei wol love.
1578 G. Best True Disc. Passage to Cathaya ii. 13 Hauing mountaines of fleeting Ise on euery side, we went romer for one, & loofed for another.
1579–80 T. North tr. Antonius in Plutarch Lives (1595) 999 He was driuen also to loofe off to haue more roome.
1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 119 He loffed too, and was able to lie as neere as he did before.
1591 W. Raleigh Rep. Fight Iles of Açores sig. B2 The ships that wer vnder his lee luffing vp, also laid him aborde.
a1600 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xlviii. 143 Come no lauer, bot luif a lytill we.
1600 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 589 The Viceadmirall of the Spaniards..loofed by and gaue the Concord the two first great shot.
1687 B. Randolph Present State Archipel. 61 The ship..luffing too near the great island.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xx. 550 We lufft in for the Downs.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis v, in tr. Virgil Wks. 328 Contract your swelling Sails, and luff to Wind.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) To Loof into a Harbour, is to sail into it close by the Wind.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. i. 112 By means of the head-way we had got, we loofed close in.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Luff, the order..to put the helm towards the lee-side of the ship... Hence, luff round, or luff alee..the excess of this movement by which it is intended to throw the ship's head up in the wind, in order to tack her.
1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 110 He had the satisfaction to luff under his stern.
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xv. 234Luff now, all you can, quarter master,’ cried the captain.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxvi. 136 She luffed at the same moment, and we just passed one another.
a1895 Ld. C. E. Paget Autobiogr. (1896) i. 8 The unfortunate vessel was in a sinking state,..she luffed up and grounded on the rocks.
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