wing and wing
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adverb Nautical.
with a sail extended on each side, as with the foresail out on one side and the mainsail out on the other.
Origin of wing and wing
First recorded in 1775–85
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The Wonder, wing-and-wing, was headed directly in for the anchorage.
A Son Of The SunJack London
The wind was pretty fresh from the westward, and he went off wing-and-wing before it.
Little BobtailOliver Optic
In a couple of hours we were entering the bay, and running "wing-and-wing."
The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, CompleteWilliam T. Sherman
In "Wing-and-Wing," which followed it, the fortune of a French privateer is told.
James Fenimore CooperThomas R. Lounsbury
In "Wing-and-Wing" the hero had been discarded because he was a thorough infidel.
James Fenimore CooperThomas R. Lounsbury
wing and wing
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