, in Sea-Language, a word used by the pilot in directing the helmsman or steersman to keep the ship in her present situation when sailing with a scant wind, so that she may not approach too near the direction of the wind, which would shiver her sails, nor fall to leeward, and run farther out of her course.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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