Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > near the wind
near the wind
Close to wind; generally used in a sense to convey the meaning that the vessel is too near the wind, as "She's near forward," meaning that the head sails are shaking or lifting.
0
0
Improve it
- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s):
- Blossary:
- Industry/Domain: Sailing
- Category: General sailing
- Company:
- Product:
- Acronym-Abbreviation:
Other Languages:
Member comments
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
Industry/Domain: Psychology Category: Feelings and states
Weltschmerz
The emotion experienced when a person realises that the real world will never be able to live up to their expectations, or when a person realises that ...
Contributor
Featured blossaries
paul01234
0
Terms
51
Blossaries
1
Followers
Must-Try Philippine Delicacies
Category: Food 4 20 Terms
Browers Terms By Category
- Osteopathy(423)
- Acupuncture(18)
- Alternative psychotherapy(17)
- Ayurveda(9)
- Homeopathy(7)
- Naturopathy(3)
Alternative therapy(489) Terms
- Health insurance(1657)
- Medicare & Medicaid(969)
- Life insurance(359)
- General insurance(50)
- Commercial insurance(4)
- Travel insurance(1)
Insurance(3040) Terms
- Wireless networking(199)
- Modems(93)
- Firewall & VPN(91)
- Networking storage(39)
- Routers(3)
- Network switches(2)
Network hardware(428) Terms
- Radiology equipment(1356)
- OBGYN equipment(397)
- Cardiac supplies(297)
- Clinical trials(199)
- Ultrasonic & optical equipment(61)
- Physical therapy equipment(42)
Medical devices(2427) Terms
- Social media(480)
- Internet(195)
- Search engines(29)
- Online games(22)
- Ecommerce(21)
- SEO(8)