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单词 to make a claw to windward
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to make a claw to windward
7. [ < claw v.] An act of clawing. to make a claw to windward (Nautical): = claw v. 7.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > strive or make way against wind > off a lee shore
to claw off1615
to make a claw to windward1841
1841 T. P. Thompson Let. 4 Jan. in Exercises (1842) VI. 19 If the friends of the Charter only had the grace of seamanship, there would be a noble opportunity to make a claw to windward out of the misery the War-whigs have plunged themselves into.
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