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Luff

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pointnounA small dot or mark.

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pointnounA 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.
tacknounA small nail with a flat head.
luff tacklenoun(nautical) A purchase composed of a double and single block and fall, used for various purposes.
loofnounThe spongy fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Luffa aegyptiaca).
cunninghamnounA 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.
lappernounOne who laps liquid, who takes liquid in with the tongue.
lugsailnounA 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.
latchingnounThe 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.
leefangnounA 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.
throatnounThe 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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