Luff is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LUFF in dictionary:

VERB:
• to steer a sailing vessel nearer into the wind
• steer (a yacht) nearer the wind
• obstruct (an opponent in yacht racing) by sailing closer to the wind
• sail (a ship) towards the wind
• To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind.
• sail close to the wind
• flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides
NOUN:
• the edge of a fore-and-aft sail next to the mast or stay
• The side of a ship toward the wind.
• The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
• The roundest part of a ship\'s bow.
• The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
• (nautical) the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is next to the mast
• the act of sailing close to the wind
• leading edge of a fore-and-aft sail

Words related to LUFF

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Words that contain LUFF

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How to use LUFF in a sentence

• We had been obliged to luff a little, in order to clear a reef that even Marble admitted lay off Montauk, while the Leander had kept quite as much away, with a view to close.
• As for the frigate, she was still keeping her luff, in order to get far enough to windward to make sure of her prey.
• The latter ship becoming too crippled to luff, while Mons.
• Her line of sailing would take her about two hundred yards to leeward of us, and my first impulse was to luff.
• She is to keep her yards braced up, that when she goes down to board, and has approached the ship she is to attempt, she may have nothing to do but to spring her luff.
• Luff, who then lived in Paterdale, witnessed upon this melancholy occasion, and partly from what Mrs.
• Luff, luff, cried the quartermaster that conned the ship, keep her full, luff the helm.
• Luff and Douglas were this day taken very ill with the ague.
• This morning Luff was a little better, but Douglas was able to eat but little.
• Early this morning we prepared to start, but Luff and Douglas being seized with a fit of ague, we were compelled to stop.
• Luff and Douglas now began to get better, but being still unable to walk, we could not break up our camp.
• One of our dogs killed a young dog belonging to the natives during the night, which I afterwards ascertained was eaten by Dunn, Luff, Costigan, and Goddard.
• The whole of the party left at the camp were very weak, Luff being the weakest man that proceeded with the party to Cape York.
• Kennedy from Weymouth Bay for Cape York, on the 13th November, 1848, accompanied by Costigan, Dunn, and Luff, leaving eight men at the camp, at Weymouth Bay.
• Kennedy and I had dinner there, and went on in the afternoon leaving Dunn, Costigan, and Luff at the creek.
• In all probability the three men here are dead, for when Jackey left them, Costigan was nearly dead, and Luff was very ill.
• You can neither luff, nor spill the wind out of the sail by slackening off the sheet, nor put your boat in a position to take a heavy sea safely.
• The helmsman, who was smoking a pipe as he eyed the luff of his sail, waved his hand to me, as I loped along beside him.
• Luff, stow away the last entry of tobacco for me, and the young dog has disturbed every document I own.
• Luff, with an injunction to profit by any breeze that might offer, to draw as near as possible to the chase.
• Luff was not neglectful of his duty, it was not long before the Coquette approached her boats.
• Luff, after a few minutes had been allowed to execute the preceding commands.
• Luff would have them, out of my own pocket, though it is often as empty as a parish church in which a fox-hunting parson preaches.
• He laughed when Ruggiero advised him to luff a little, and he did as he was told.
• All you that are too fond of wine, Or any other stuff, Take warning by the dismal fate Of one Lieutenant Luff.
• Five were attached to the sail along the luff, and one was fastened with a piece of leather to the end of the gaff.
• To the luff were attached a number of mast rings, which were slipped over a stout mast projecting about 5 feet 6 inches above the deck of the boat.

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