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headreach

headreach is the alternative form of head reach.

Meaning of head reach

Noun

head reach

  1. The distance to windward traversed by a vessel while tacking.

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Forms of headreach

third-person singular presentheadreaches
present participleheadreaching
past participleheadreached
pastheadreached

Questions about headreach

What is headreach the alternative form of?
Headreach is the alternative form of head reach.

Words near headreach in the dictionary

  1. headraces
  2. headrag
  3. headrags
  4. headrail
  5. headrails
  6. headreach
  7. headreached
  8. headreaches
  9. headreaching
  10. headrest
  11. headrests

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Adapted from Wiktionary: headreach (page history and authors); head reach (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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