🔄 Synonyms of "Luff"
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| Word | Definition |
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| pointnoun | A small dot or mark. |
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| Word | Definition |
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| pointnoun | A small dot or mark. |
| tacklenoun | (sports, countable) A play where a player attempts to take control over the ball from an opponent, as in rugby or football. |
| tacknoun | A small nail with a flat head. |
| luff tacklenoun | (nautical) A purchase composed of a double and single block and fall, used for various purposes. |
| loofnoun | The spongy fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Luffa aegyptiaca). |
| cunninghamnoun | A Scottish habitational surname and clan. |
| headnoun | (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs. |
| lappernoun | One who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with the tongue. |
| lugsailnoun | A quadrilateral sail bent upon a yard that crosses the mast obliquely; a lug. |
| luffernoun | (sailing, yacht racing) One who luffs (sails close to the wind) in order to threaten a windward opponent. |
| latchingnoun | The act of fastening a latch. |
| bowlinenoun | (nautical) A knot tied so as to produce an eye or loop in the end of a rope that will not slip or jam. |
| staysailnoun | (nautical) A fore-and-aft rigged sail whose luff can be affixed to a stay running forward from a mast to the deck, the bowsprit or to another mast. |
| lateen | (nautical) A triangular fore-and-aft sail set on a boom in such way that the tack is attached to the hull of the vessel and the free end of the boom lifts the sail. |
| leeboardnoun | (nautical, countable) A board, or frame of planks, lowered over the side of a sailboat to lessen its leeway. |
| leefangnoun | A metal bar, fastened at its extremities to the deck, and upon which the sheets of some fore-and-aft sails traverse, particularly the foresail of a sloop or cutter. |
| throatnoun | The front part of the neck. |
| foresailnoun | (nautical, on a square-rigged ship) The lowest (and usually the largest) square sail hung on the foremast |
| gaff-topsailnoun | (nautical) A small triangular sail having its foot extended upon the gaff and its luff upon the topmast. |
| headsailnoun | (nautical) Any sail (of a sailing vessel) set forward of the foremost mast. |
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