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c1500 Piers of Fulham (Trin. Cambr.) in C. H. Hartshorne Anc. Metrical Tales (1829) 129 What worde to sey, he [sc. the loodsman] is in doute, Eyther warae the lof, or ells full and by.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 32 Than the master cryit on the rudir man, mait keip ful and by.

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 42 Fill the sailes, keepe full, full and by.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. i. 4 We set in the Lee-braces..and hawl'd over the Missen Tack to Windward, and kept her full and by as near as she would lye.

1835 United Service Mag. Feb. 217 ‘Shall I bring her to the wind, Sir?’ ‘Yes, luff her up, boy! full-and-by.’

1881 W. C. Russell Ocean Free-lance I. vi. 265 They held on after us nevertheless, sailing full and bye.

1902 ‘Q’ White Wolf 101 He jogged along steady, keeping her full and by, and letting her take the seas the best way she liked them.

1930 New Statesman 5 July 412/1 And, take it full and bye, it is one of the very few things to be honoured in our nature.

1972 Motor Boating & Sailing Jan. 44/1 The technique of going to weather by half boards is a matter of sailing full and by, fore reaching into the wind.., and then bearing away on the original tack.

2001 S. McGrail Boats of World ix. 343/2 With a foul wind, the boat was sailed full and by, and estimates made of the deviation from the direct track.