, or taut weather-helm.
A ship with a side wind is said to carry a taut weather-helm, when the water presses heavily on the lee side of the rudder; often the result of her being too much by the head.
See taut helm ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj Snug; close; firm; secure. II. Taut ·adj Tight; stretched; not slack; — said ·esp. of a rope ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
[from the Anglo-Saxon tought]. Tight. ...
·noun ·see <<Haulm>>, straw. II. Helm ·noun A <<Helve>>. III. Helm ·noun A <<Helmet>>. IV. Helm ·...
1) a hovel. N. 2) stubble gathered after the corn is housed ; also pease straw. S. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
Properly is the tiller, but sometimes used to express the rudder, and the means used for turning it,...
The act of turning the capstan, &c., till the rope applied thereto becomes straight and ready for ac...
A ship sailing close-hauled is "on a taut bowline." ...
A strict disciplinarian. ...
A sail well set on a wind, and well filled. ...
A vessel at anchor, heeling over to the force of the wind. ...
The round hole or cavity in a ship's counter, through which the head of the rudder passes into the t...
A singular meteorological phenomenon which occurs in the north of England. Besides special places in...
If the ship is too much by the stern, she will carry her helm too much a-lee. ...
One of the principal results of sound seamanship is the proper trim of the vessel and the sail carri...
A ship is said to carry a weather-helm when she is inclined to gripe, or come too near the wind, and...
the handle of a spade, &c. Derb. ...
When a ship obeys the rudder or steers. ...
An order often given in a vessel close-hauled, to put the helm down a few spokes in a head sea, with...
The piece of timber placed across the lower counter, withinside the height of the helm-port, and bol...
The order to put it amidships, that is, in a line with the keel. ...
The order for an alteration of its position, by moving it towards the opposite side of the ship; tha...
So place the helm that the rudder is brought on the port side of the stern-post. (See hard-a-starboa...
Tenement of Thomas de Lillyngston so called in parish of St. Peter de Cornhull, 1361 (Ct. H.W. II. 3...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
An order to put the helm a-lee. ...
To have good steerage way, carrying taut weather-helm, which gives command of steerage. Also said of...
Put it a-weather; that is, over to the windward side, or (whichever way the tiller is shipped) so as...