drop of a sail

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drop of a sail - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Depth \Depth\ (s[e^]pth), n. [From Deep; akin to D. diepte,
     Icel. d[=y]pt, d[=y]p[eth], Goth. diupi[thorn]a.]
     1. The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular
        measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal
        measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a
        river; the depth of a body of troops.
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     2. Profoundness; extent or degree of intensity; abundance;
        completeness; as, depth of knowledge, or color.
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              Mindful of that heavenly love
              Which knows no end in depth or height. --Keble.
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     3. Lowness; as, depth of sound.
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     4. That which is deep; a deep, or the deepest, part or place;
        the deep; the middle part; as, the depth of night, or of
        winter.
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              From you unclouded depth above.       --Keble.
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              The depth closed me round about.      --Jonah ii. 5.
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     5. (Logic) The number of simple elements which an abstract
        conception or notion includes; the comprehension or
        content.
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     6. (Horology) A pair of toothed wheels which work together.
        [R.]
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     7. (A["e]ronautics) The perpendicular distance from the chord
        to the farthest point of an arched surface.
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     8. (Computers) the maximum number of times a type of
        procedure is reiteratively called before the last call is
        exited; -- of subroutines or procedures which are
        reentrant; -- used of call stacks.
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     Depth of a sail (Naut.), the extent of a square sail from
        the head rope to the foot rope; the length of the after
        leach of a staysail or boom sail; -- commonly called the
        drop of a sail.
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