, in Navigation, denotes the angle which the line of a ship's motion makes with the nearest meridian, when she drives with her side to the wind and waves, and is not governed by the power of the helm; and also the distance which the ship drives on that line, so called only in a storm.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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