eat to windward

English

Verb

eat to windward (third-person singular simple present eats to windward, present participle eating to windward, simple past ate to windward, past participle eaten to windward)

  1. (nautical, of a vessel) To keep the course when close-hauled with minimal steering.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for eat to windward in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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