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 > in tacking (3)
intransitive. Nautical. To beat to windward; to tack. Obsolete.
intransitive. Nautical. To beat up to windward; to tack. Formerly also †transitive with it as object (obsolete). Cf. main sense 15d.
From senses 10 19: to heave a-peak: see quots. and a-peak, adv. to heave (the ship) in stays: to bring her head to the wind in tacking; also intrans…