weatherliness

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weatherliness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Weatherliness \Weath"er*li*ness\, n. (Naut.)
     The quality of being weatherly.
     [1913 Webster]

weatherliness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  weatherliness
      n 1: (of a sailing vessel) the quality of being able to sail
           close to the wind with little drift to the leeward (even in
           a stiff wind); "the Spanish ships had superior speed and
           weatherliness"