good leg
English
Noun
good leg (plural good legs)
- (nautical) A course sailed on a tack near to the desired course.
- 1848, James Fenimore Cooper, Jack Tier:
- In a minute or two the Swash was under what Mrs. Budd might have called her "attacking" canvas, and was close by the wind, looking on a good leg well up the harbour.
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References
- leg in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- Googled, googled