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WEAR ROUND
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Turn into the wind
Example:
The boat tacked
Synonyms:
tack; wear round
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "wear round" is one way to...):
sail (travel on water propelled by wind)
Domain category:
navigation; pilotage; piloting (the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place)
boat (a small vessel for travel on water)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
