Usually means: Sailboat steers into the wind.
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  1. weather helm: Merriam-Webster
  2. weather helm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. weather helm: Wordnik
  4. Weather helm: Dictionary.com
  5. Weather helm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. weather-helm: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  7. weather helm: FreeDictionary.org
  8. weather helm: Wiktionary

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  1. Weather helm: Sports Definitions

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (weather helm)

▸ noun:  (nautical) A keeping of the helm somewhat aweather when a vessel shows a tendency to come into the wind while sailing.

Similar:
helm, helme, healme, heeling, helmage, close helm, helmet, helm-port, hullock, heeld, more...

Opposite:
lee helm, lee, downwind helm

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Similar:
helm, helme, healme, heeling, helmage, close helm, helmet, helm-port, hullock, heeld, more...

Opposite:
lee helm, lee, downwind helm



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