intransitive. With adjective complement. Originally: to leave or depart in a specified state or condition. In later use also with the notion of…
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| 释义 | society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > sail with wind abaft the beam (7) goOE intransitive. With adjective complement. Originally: to leave or depart in a specified state or condition. In later use also with the notion of… large1582 intransitive. Nautical. Of the wind: to become favourable; cf. large, adj. 18. Obsolete (archaic in later use). to go (sail, etc.) large1615 Nautical. With the wind on the quarter or abaft the beam; (also) in or into a course further off, or away from, the wind. Chiefly in to go (sail,e… lask1622 Nautical. To ‘go large’; to sail neither ‘by the wind’ nor ‘before the wind’. (to go) fluking1840 transferred in phrase (to go) fluking or all (-a-) fluking (see quot. 1867). Subcategories:— sail off the wind or to leeward (1) — sail with wind on quarter (1) |
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