back-windv.
Nautical.
To be taken, or cause to be taken, aback.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > carry specific amount of sail [verb (transitive)] > trim sails > lay aback
to put aback1698
to back a yard1707
bagpipe1769
to lay aback1769
back-wind1899
1899 Daily News 6 Oct. 7/3 At this stage both yachts were compelled to close haul to avoid back-winding.
1899 Daily News 21 Oct. 3/4 The Columbia's [spinnaker]..behaved badly, back-winding the defender constantly.
Derivatives
back-wind n. a gust that lays a sail aback.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind as means of propulsion > too much ahead
bare wind1682
back-wind1909
1909 Westm. Gaz. 30 Jan. 9/1 A whaleboat..capsized,..the sail being caught by a back-wind, as the course was being changed.
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