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Steerageway

noun
1.
(nautical) the minimum rate of motion needed for a vessel to be maneuvered.






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"Steerageway" Quotes from Famous Books



... tiller and slacking away on the main-sheet,—for the wind favored,—he headed the sloop down upon Joe. The latter made one tremendous spurt, then gave up in despair and hauled in his oars. French Pete let go the main-sheet, lost steerageway as he rounded up alongside the motionless ...
— The Cruise of the Dazzler • Jack London

... river with absent, angry eyes, stopped his miserable thoughts to watch a steamboat coming down the current. Its smoke-stacks were folded back for passing under the bridge, and its great paddlewheel scarcely moved except to get steerageway. It was pushing a dozen rafts, all lashed together into a spreading sheet. The smell of the fresh planks pierced the acrid odor of soot that was settling down with the night mists. On one of the rafts was a shanty of newly sawed pine ...
— The Iron Woman • Margaret Deland



Words linked to "Steerageway" :   velocity, speed, seafaring, sailing, navigation



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