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eat to windward

eat to windward verb: to keep the course when close-hauled with minimal steering.

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. (dated) To keep the course when close-hauled with minimal steering.

Forms of eat to windward

third-person singular presenteats to windward
present participleeating to windward
pastate to windward
past participleeaten to windward

Questions about eat to windward

What does eat to windward mean?
Eat to windward means to keep the course when close-hauled with minimal steering.
What part of speech is eat to windward?
Eat to windward is a verb.
What is the past tense of eat to windward?
The past tense of eat to windward is ate to windward.

Words near eat to windward in the dictionary

  1. eat the mic
  2. eat the onion
  3. eat the rich
  4. eat the seed corn
  5. eat to live, not live to eat
  6. eat to windward
  7. eat twat
  8. eat up
  9. eat up with a spoon
  10. eat what you kill
  11. eat, breathe, and sleep

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