abouting

Verb

about (third-person singular simple present abouts, present participle abouting, simple past and past participle abouted)

1. (uncommon) To change the course of (a ship) to the other tack; to bring (a ship) about.
   • The Channel at Archer's Hope Point lies close by the Shoar, and makes such an Angle there by reason of Hog Island, that going up or down the River, let the Wind be where it will, they must there bring the contrary Tack on Board, and generally when they About the Ship as they call it, they are so...1694, John Martyn (Londres), James Allestry (Londres), Henry Oldenburg, Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labors of the Ingenious in Many...
2. (humorous, possibly, uncommon) To about-face (turn 180 degrees, like a soldier).
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