See luff on Wiktionary
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"sense": "vertical edge of a sail",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "loef"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "sfat hamifras",
"sense": "vertical edge of a sail",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "שְׂפַת הַמִפְרָשׂ"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "vertical edge of a sail",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "inferitura"
},
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"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"sense": "vertical edge of a sail",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "lof"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "act of sailing close to the wind",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "orsa"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "sapa kidmit",
"sense": "forward or weather leech of a sail",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "שָׂפָה קִדְמִית"
}
],
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}
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"word": "luff alee"
},
{
"word": "luffing crane"
},
{
"word": "luff round"
},
{
"word": "luff tackle"
},
{
"word": "luff up"
},
{
"word": "luff upon luff"
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"ref": "1993, John Banville, Ghosts:",
"text": "I thought how my life is like a little boat and I must hold the tiller steady against the buffeting of wind and waves, and how sometimes, like this morning, I lose my hold somehow and the sail luffs helplessly and the little vessel wallows, turning this way and that in the swell.",
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"To shake due to being trimmed improperly."
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"(nautical, of a sail, intransitive) To shake due to being trimmed improperly."
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"ref": "1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:",
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"(nautical, of sailing vessels, intransitive) To bring the ship's head up closer to the wind. (Alternatively luff up)"
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"to let out (a sail) so that it luffs."
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"(nautical, transitive) to let out (a sail) so that it luffs."
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"ref": "1999, Howard I. Shapiro, Jay P. Shapiro, Lawrence K. Shapiro, Cranes and Derricks, →ISBN, page 95:",
"text": "The tower is mounted on a slewing platform, which also carries the power plant and the counterweights, while the jib is supported and luffed by fixed pendant ropes.",
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"(mechanical) To alter the vertical angle of the jib of a crane so as to bring it level with the load."
],
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],
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}
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"(Northern) Alternative form of love (“palm”)"
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