close-hauled
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close-hauled adjective
- With the sails trimmed as close to the wind as possible with all sails full and not shivering
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close-hauled adverb
- With the sails close-hauled
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closehighclose to the windhead to windfore-and-aft-riggedclosehandedline abreasthand-tightfore-and-afthigh and tightnearhand-to-handnear as a toucherstrettogaincloseish
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