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Close-hauled   /kloʊs-hɔld/   Listen
Close-hauled

adjective
1.
Having the sails trimmed for sailing as close to the wind as possible.





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"Close-hauled" Quotes from Famous Books



... over to the Van Wort place, and after going as near the shore as the depth of water would permit, I headed the skiff to the bank, and gave it a smart push, which drove it far enough upon the beach to hold it, just as the owner of it came to receive it. Trimming the sails, I went down the lake close-hauled. ...
— Seek and Find - or The Adventures of a Smart Boy • Oliver Optic
... sufficiently to the southward to enable us to stand for Plymouth; but we kept close-hauled, that we might have a good offing, should the wind shift to the westward, when it would be in our teeth. Darkness was creeping over the face of the water. The Dolphin was about two cables length ahead of us. We had just gone down to tea, and Oliver was pouring out a cup ...
— A Yacht Voyage Round England • W.H.G. Kingston


Words linked to "Close-hauled" :   sailing, close, navigation, seafaring


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