Weatherliness

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Weatherliness \Weath"er*li*ness\, n. (Naut.)
     The quality of being weatherly.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  weatherliness
       n : (of a sailing vessel) the quality of being able to sail
           close to the wind with little drift to the leeward (even
           in a stiff wind); "the Spanish ships had superior speed
           and weatherliness"