society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > get into the current of the wind [verb (transitive)] > impede a ship (of the wind) (2)
transitive. Nautical. Of the wind: to catch and delay (a ship). Obsolete. rare.
To defeat (anyone) in his or her efforts; to frustrate or confound the plans of, to foil. Often said of the wind and weather defeating the efforts…