heeling
- a word derived from Heelys.
Example Sentences
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By now the Oceanos was taking in more and more water and heeling markedly to its starboard side.
From BBC ● Apr. 5, 2022
“Soon we were ‘burying the rail’ ” — heeling so far to one side that the rail of the boat was underwater.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2019
“Princess Panics-a-Lot” is the teasing moniker that Stuart would gently bestow upon Pat whenever she would get anxious that, beating to windward, we were heeling too much and might tip over.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 2, 2017
It both made sense and made no sense at all, and I tried to imagine those dads, composing their notes and then calmly unbuttoning their shirts and heeling away their shoes.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2014
She could have only four or five inches of freeboard left on the sides and, at the least heeling, her deck would go under from the weight of the water inside the boat.
From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen
