Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > gripe

gripe

A vessel is said to gripe when she has a tendency to fly up in the wind, and requires weather helm to check or "pay off" the tendency.

0
  • Part of Speech: verb
  • Synonym(s):
  • Blossary:
  • Industry/Domain: Sailing
  • Category: General sailing
  • Company:
  • Product:
  • Acronym-Abbreviation:
Collect to Blossary

Member comments

You have to log in to post to discussions.

Terms in the News

Featured Terms

Harry8L
  • 0

    Terms

  • 0

    Blossaries

  • 1

    Followers

Industry/Domain: Games Category: Boardgames

Chess Olympiad

The opening ceremony of the 40th World Chess Olympiad will take place on August 27th, in Istanbul. Venue of the official start of the competition will ...

Contributor

Featured blossaries

Neology Blossary

Category: Languages   1 2 Terms

Words that should be banned in 2015

Category: Languages   1 2 Terms

Browers Terms By Category