lateral resistance

American  

noun

Naval Architecture.

1. resistance to sidewise motion caused by wind pressure, supplied by the immersed portion of a hull of a vessel.

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Example Sentences

Said of a well-trimmed ship with a clean bottom, when she holds a good wind, and presents such lateral resistance to the water, that she makes but little lee-way while sailing close-hauled.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

A man in the water weighs practically nothing, and to heave around a capstan under water requires lateral resistance.

From "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea by Robertson, Morgan