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Meanings of larboard tack in English

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Usage of larboard tack in English
1
Both the pursuer and pursued were on the larboard tack, going free.
From Powder Monkey to Admiral: A Story of Naval Adventure
2
The schooner was running on the larboard tack as close to the wind as possible.
Dick Sands, the Boy Captain
3
Presently the French again altered their course, and formed their line on the larboard tack.
Paddy Finn
4
The "Chancellor" was running on the larboard tack, and carried low-sails, top-sails, and gallant-sails.
The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J.R. Kazallon, Passeng...
5
Lay her on the larboard tack, Mr Penhaligon!
Honour This Day
6
The schooner was then running on the larboard tack, and hugging the wind as much as possible.
Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen
7
We are on the larboard tack.
The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History
8
Very well, sir-very well-haulup on the larboard tack, as soon as possible, and get the larboard batteries clear.
The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet
9
She was on the larboard tack, under courses, topsails, and main-topgallant sail, heading as if to cross my bows.
The Frozen Pirate
10
The MACQUARIE stood out to sea on the larboard tack, under all her lower sails, topsails, topgallants, cross-jack, and jib.
In Search of the Castaways; Or, The Children of Captain Grant
11
Pencroft set sail at break of day, and by going on the larboard tack they could keep close to the shore.
The Mysterious Island
12
It was a defensive combat, entirely, on their parts, after Commodore Nelson obliged them to haul their wind on the larboard tack.
The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, V...
13
Sure enough a ship was meeting us, heading up on the larboard tack about west-north-west, as she stretched in towards the English coast.
Miles Wallingford / Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"
14
We saw nothing of the land after the first half-hour, but at midnight we wore ship, and came up on the larboard tack.
Ned Myers, or, a Life Before the Mast
15
The next minute the sails were filled on the larboard tack, as before, and le Feu-Follet again drew ahead, standing in for the cliffs.
The Wing-and-Wing; Or, Le Feu-Follet
16
The boat was hauled close to the wind on the larboard tack, but she scarcely looked up to her course, besides making much lee-way.
Will Weatherhelm: The Yarn of an Old Sailor
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Larboard tack through the time
Larboard tack across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common