v
(nautical, literally) To leave or forsake a ship due to its impending doom.
adj
(by extension) at a loss, ruined, with no way out
n
(navigation) A bearing taken pointing to the exact opposite direction to the direction heading
v
(nautical, transitive, intransitive) To remove (water) from a boat by scooping it out.
v
(intransitive, with of) To make an unscheduled voluntary termination of an underwater dive, usually implying the use of an alternative breathing gas supply.
v
(transitive, nautical) To deprive (a ship) of wind, so that it cannot move (usually in passive).
v
(intransitive, nautical) The general command to stop or cease.
v
(nautical) Of a ship, to get trapped by ice.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To tow about; pull; draw; lead about; conduct.
n
The concept or practice of taking women and children first in an evacuation or rescue.
v
(transitive) To prevent (enemy vessels) from leaving an anchorage.
v
(nautical) To deviate from sheer, and risk fouling the anchor.
v
(transitive, nautical, of a mast or rigging) To break under sudden pressure of violent wind.
v
(transitive) To abandon a ship at sea
v
(nautical) To abandon or maroon.
v
(transitive, intransitive, nautical) To let go (a cable or rope securing a vessel to a buoy, wharf, etc.) so that the vessel may make way.
adj
Cast adrift or ashore; marooned.
v
(nautical) To remove, or fasten, all loose material, or partitions prior to a naval engagement.
v
(nautical) To sail away quickly by cutting the yarns that hold the sails furled; to cut the anchor cable and not wait to weigh it.
v
(nautical) To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore.
adj
(US, military, nautical, slang) Of or pertaining to the Delayed Entry Program.
v
(nautical) To cause the sidereal pole to appear lower or nearer the horizon, as by sailing toward the equator.
v
(transitive, nautical) To break off the mast (of a ship), especially by gunfire.
v
(nautical) To demote a sailor to a lower rank
v
(nautical, of water or other liquid) To enter a boat, ship, or other vessel through openings that are normally above the waterline.
v
To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
v
(nautical, intransitive) To sail, move, or row down a coast, or down a river to the sea.
n
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
v
(nautical) To sail or drift toward the mouth of a river or other outlet.
v
(intransitive) To flee, to escape, to speed away.
n
(Northern England) Falls. used in place names.
v
(nautical) To press on regardless of hindrances.
v
(intransitive, of a ship) To flood with water and sink.
v
(intransitive) To participate in geocaching.
v
To fall out of a vessel.
v
(transitive, nautical, said of a sail) To furl.
v
(nautical) To alter course so as to get farther away from an object.
v
(nautical) To pull a boat out of the water.
adj
Left out of water, stranded on a beach, or in the stocks for repair, or in dry dock.
v
(idiomatic, transitive) To lift; to tug or pull upwards.
v
(transitive, slang) To rob.
v
(UK, historical, transitive) To search (a ship) for unentered goods.
v
(nautical) To depart from a ship, especially without permission.
v
(nautical, transitive) To make an improvised rigging or assembly from whatever is available.
v
(transitive) To rebuke harshly.
v
(nautical, dated) To loosen and let run freely, as lines; to let fall without restraint, as a sail.
v
(transitive) To cause to rise in the air and float, as if in defiance of gravity.
v
(nautical, transitive) To remain at a safe distance from (another vessel or hazard)
v
(transitive, nautical) To cause (something) to tilt to one side.
v
(military, aviation) For an aircraft to remain in the air near a target.
adj
(nautical, of a ship, boat, or other vessel) Destroyed or sunk, with all passengers and crew having died in the process.
v
(nautical) To sail in such shallow water that the ship's keel stirs the mud at the bottom.
v
Synonym of miss the boat
adj
(by extension, figuratively) Being a part of, being included in, participating in
adj
(literally) In water so deep that one cannot stand and may be at risk of drowning.
n
(motor racing) A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone else by pitting after them and running in clean air to make up time.
v
(nautical) To slacken a rope by lengthening it; to allow a rope to run out.
v
Synonym of haul someone over the coals
adj
(obsolete, nautical, slang) Having joined the United States Navy, either because of destitution or in order to flee problems on land.
v
(Britain, idiomatic) to do something, especially spend money, more extravagantly than usual, particularly for a celebration.
v
(intransitive) Of a ship: to be run aground intentionally to avoid a collision
v
(intransitive, nautical) To call at (a place or port), especially as a deviation from an intended journey.
v
(transitive, nautical) To cut (a ship) down to a smaller number of decks, and thus to an inferior rate or class.
n
(nautical) A stretch of a watercourse which can be sailed in one reach (in the previous sense). An extended portion of water; a stretch; a straightish portion of a stream, river, or arm of the sea extending up into the land, as from one turn to another. By extension, the adjacent land.
v
(nautical) To pass; to run; said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.
v
(transitive, nautical) To survive in a storm (about a ship) and keep afloat.
v
(intransitive) To break apart; to split.
v
(nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul.
v
(transitive, nautical) To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.
v
(nautical, of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled.
v
(of a ship) To continue without being steered (usually having been abandoned).
v
(nautical) To become entangled in; to run aground on.
v
(transitive) To cause (a vessel) to be immobilized by water too shallow to allow it to float.
v
(nautical, transitive) To run against and sink, as a vessel.
v
To pass or progress quickly and easily.
v
(transitive or intransitive, nautical) To order someone to go below the top deck on a ship.
v
To send a ship, boat or raft out to sea without a crew or resources to steer it.
v
(colloquial, with dummy it) Leave, depart, scram.
v
(nautical, transitive) To take in the slack of (a rope).
n
(marine insurance) A memorandum of the particulars of a risk for which a policy is to be executed. It usually bears the broker's name and is initiated by the underwriters.
v
(nautical, dated) To release the end of the cable on board and let it all run out and go overboard, as when there is not time to weigh anchor.
v
(nautical, dated) To move away from shore.
v
(intransitive, nautical) To change; tack; go about; be in stays, as a ship.
v
(transitive) To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel).
adj
(military, nautical, of a warship) Having its name removed from a country's naval register, e.g. the United States Naval Vessel Register.
v
(transitive, nautical) To leave high and dry on shore.
v
(naval slang) To leave the navy.
v
(nautical) To take over navigational duties on the bridge of a ship.
v
(nautical) To keep the ship as near (the wind) as possible.
v
(nautical) To touch bottom lightly and without damage, as a vessel in motion.
v
(nautical) Synonym of tumble home (“to incline inward”)
v
(nautical) To separate the parts of (a tackle) and put them in order.
v
(transitive) To pull down by, or as by, an undertow.
v
(Britain, sailing, slang) To put up the mast of a ship in preparation for sailing.
v
(transitive, nautical) To make (a boat) heavy and in danger of sinking by flooding it with water.
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