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▸ adverb: (obsolete, nautical, of sails) Lined up in the direction of the wind and thus not propelled by the wind
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▸ adverb: (obsolete, nautical, of sails) Lined up in the direction of the wind and thus not propelled by the wind
Similar:
room,
ashore,
bare-backed,
windlessly,
aground,
adrift,
tidelessly,
stock-still,
behind,
stockishly,
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