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square away

square away verb: to square the ship's yards to make her run before the wind, with the wind blowing straight from the stern.

Verb

square away (third-person singular simple present squares away, present participle squaring away, simple past and past participle squared away)

  1. To square the ship's yards to make her run before the wind, with the wind blowing straight from the stern.
    • Accordingly, when the wheel was relieved at eight o'clock, the order was given to keep her due north, and all hands were turned up to square away the yards and make sail.1969, Richard Henry Dana, Two Years Before the Mast: Twenty-four Years After
  2. (idiomatic) To finish, complete, tidy or put in order.
    • I have almost squared away the last of the paperwork from that job.

square away meaning in Bengali

square away in Bengali

শেষ করা, সম্পূর্ণ করা, পরিপাটি করা

Forms of square away

third-person singular presentsquares away
present participlesquaring away
past participlesquared away
pastsquared away

Questions about square away

What does square away mean?
Square away means to square the ship's yards to make her run before the wind, with the wind blowing straight from the stern.
What is square away in Bengali?
Square away in Bengali is শেষ করা, সম্পূর্ণ করা, পরিপাটি করা. See Square away meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is square away?
Square away is a verb.
What is the past tense of square away?
The past tense of square away is squared away.

Words near square away in the dictionary

  1. square
  2. Square and Compass
  3. square annuli
  4. square annulus
  5. square around
  6. square away
  7. square ball
  8. square balls
  9. square bashing
  10. square bracket
  11. square brackets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: square away (page history and authors); square away (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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