steerageway
sufficient speed to permit a vessel to be maneuvered.
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How to use steerageway in a sentence
Thus it lost headway sufficiently so that the seas caused it to drift back, without its coming about or losing all steerageway.
The Rival Campers Afloat | Ruel Perley SmithWith her small area of exposed sail and with the wind buffeting her, she had halted and paid off, lacking steerageway.
Blow The Man Down | Holman DayAs the other approached, Harry shut off the power of the engines, checking them to little more than steerageway.
Boy Scouts in the North Sea | G. Harvey RalphsonHe held her nose up to the open sea, allowing her only steerageway, the gale slithering off her flattened sail.
The Skipper and the Skipped | Holman DayI rigged up a sail out of the oar and the canvas spray shield, but there wa'n't wind enough to give us steerageway.
The Depot Master | Joseph C. Lincoln
British Dictionary definitions for steerageway
/ (ˈstɪərɪdʒˌweɪ) /
nautical enough forward movement to allow a vessel to be steered
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