Dictionary Entry
luff
luff is a 4-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The side of a ship toward the wind. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 9 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The side of a ship toward the wind.
- 2noun
The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
- 3noun
The roundest part of a ship's bow.
- 4noun
The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
- 5intransitive verb
To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind; to sail nearer the wind; to turn the tiller so as to make the vessel sail nearer the wind.
- 6noun
the act of sailing close to the wind
- 7noun
(nautical) the forward edge of a fore-and-aft sail that is next to the mast
- 8verb
flap when the wind is blowing equally on both sides
"the sails luffed"
- 9verb
sail close to the wind
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