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WAY: TO GET UNDER WAY
To get in motion, as when a ship begins to move. So, a ship is said to have headway when she moves forward in her course, and sternway, when she is driven astern. She is said, also, to gather way, or to lose way. Leeway is a movement of a ship aside of her course, or to the leeward.
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