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adj. - (of a sailing vessel) making very little leeway when close-hauled.

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  • They would increase her heel and render her by that much less weatherly.
  • She was nothing like as weatherly and far slower; the brig would headreach and weather on her.
  • If Hotspur had been the faster and the more weatherly of the two he could have maintained any distance he chose.
  • She worked and steered well under canvas or steam alone, or under both combined; was dry and weatherly, but pitched heavily, and was rather deficient in stability.
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