A sail well set on a wind, and well filled.
·noun ·see 2d Leach. II. Leech ·vt ·see <<Leach>>, ·vt. III. Leech ·vt To bleed by the use of leec...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
[HORSE-LEECH] ...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
·adj Snug; close; firm; secure. II. Taut ·adj Tight; stretched; not slack; — said ·esp. of a rope ...
[from the Anglo-Saxon tought]. Tight. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·noun A farrier; a veterinary surgeon. II. Horse-leech ·noun A large blood-sucking leech (Haemopsis...
Occurs only in Prov. 30:15 (Heb. alukah); the generic name for any blood-sucking annelid. There are ...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
the path in which the dead are carried to be buried. Exm. ...
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
Ropes fastened to the leeches of the main-sail, fore-sail, and cross-jack, communicating with blocks...
A name given to that vertical part of the bolt-rope to which the border or edge of a sail is sewed. ...
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. ...
, or taut weather-helm. A ship with a side wind is said to carry a taut weather-helm, when the wat...
A vessel at anchor, heeling over to the force of the wind. ...
See taut helm ...