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Weatherly. World English Historical Dictionary

Weatherly. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Weatherly a. (and adv.).

1   † 1.  Of or pertaining to the weather. Obs. rare–1.

2 1652.  Gaule, Magastrom., 61. Any proposition or prognostication (as well touching weatherly events as arbitrary contingents).

3   2.  Naut. Or a sailing vessel: Able to sail close to the wind without drifting to leeward. Also used loosely (see quot. 1904).

4 1729.  Phil. Trans., XXXVI. 57. I proposed to make a Ship work for better to Windward, than it is possible for the most Weatherly one to do at present.

5 1833.  M. Scott, Tom Cringle, viii. Notwithstanding her weatherly qualities, the heavy cross sea, as she drove into it, headed her off bodily.

6 1846.  G. Warburton, Hochelaga, I. 19. Those stout weatherly boats crowding up to the wharves, have just now returned from fishing for cod.

7 1867.  Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Weatherly, said of a well-trimmed ship with a clean bottom, when she holds a good wind, and presents such lateral resistance to the water, that she makes but little lee-way while sailing close-hauled.

8 1886.  R. C. Leslie, Sea Painter’s Log, 226. For downright weatherly qualities, lead and leverage will beat beam without depth.

9 1904.  Dixon Kemp’s Yacht & Boat Sailing, 649/2. Weatherly, the quality of hanging to windward well or holding a good wind. This term is often improperly used to denote good behaviour in a sea way or in bad weather.

10   † 3.  adv. To the windward. Obs. rare–1.

11 1708.  Lond. Gaz., No. 4422/2. Three of their Ships being almost as far Weatherly as we were.

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