"close reach" meaning in English

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      "form": "close reaches",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Nautical",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We're sailing on a close reach."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The point of sail where the wind is blowing just ahead of the beam of the vessel"
      ],
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        [
          "point of sail",
          "point of sail"
        ],
        [
          "ahead",
          "ahead"
        ],
        [
          "beam",
          "beam"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) The point of sail where the wind is blowing just ahead of the beam of the vessel"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "close reach"
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    {
      "form": "close reaches",
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        "present",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "close reaching",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "close reached",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "close reached",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "glosses": [
        "To sail on a close reach"
      ],
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          "nautical",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) To sail on a close reach"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "close reach"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "close reaches",
      "tags": [
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        {
          "text": "We're sailing on a close reach."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The point of sail where the wind is blowing just ahead of the beam of the vessel"
      ],
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          "nautical",
          "nautical"
        ],
        [
          "point of sail",
          "point of sail"
        ],
        [
          "ahead",
          "ahead"
        ],
        [
          "beam",
          "beam"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(nautical) The point of sail where the wind is blowing just ahead of the beam of the vessel"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "nautical",
        "transport"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
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      "tags": [
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    },
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        "To sail on a close reach"
      ],
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        "(nautical) To sail on a close reach"
      ],
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        "transport"
      ]
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}