fill away

British

verb

(intr, adverb) nautical to cause a vessel's sails to fill, either by steering it off the wind or by bracing the yards

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I now resolved to fill away, stand down toward the equator, and hold myself stationary, for a few days, at the “crossing” of that famous great circle.

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Captain Low had now only to fill away, and make sail, on his cruise.

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Fill away, Xury, and hold for the head of the island.

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Although they used all possible haste, a good deal of precious time was consumed in towing out the yawl; and when she had been brought alongside, and the Sweepstakes was ready to fill away again, the Storm King was half way across the bay.

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The maneuver was so clumsily executed, however, that the Storm King approached very near to her before she could fill away on her course again—so near that her bow was abreast of the schooner's waist, and only about ten feet from her.

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