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lay to

verb

So they lay-to outside the horns of the bay and awaited the dawning.

I had not been out many days when a tremendous gale sprang up which compelled me to lay-to.

Captain Packenham was not a man to run away from either one or the other, so we backed our main-topsail, and lay-to for them.

Close by the islet a schooner yacht lay-to, and a well-manned boat was pulling vigorously for the shore.

The strange vessel backed her topsails and hove-to, while we ranged up and lay-to about a hundred yards off.

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