hove-to

A ship hove-to with preventer tackles on the rudder-head is unmanageable.

CHAPTER XXXVII 2010

Another week has passed, and we are to-day, by observation, sixty miles due south of the Straits of Le Maire, and we are hove-to, in a driving gale, on the port tack.

CHAPTER XXXVII 2010

Turner was hove-to, to hold her position through the night.

CHAPTER XII 2010

Never a day does the gray thin, or the snow-squalls cease that we do not sight ships, west-bound like ourselves, hove-to and trying to hold on to the meagre westing they possess.

CHAPTER XXXIX 2010

And we were near him, on the poop, when he drove by an east-bound lime-juicer, hove-to under upper-topsails.

CHAPTER XL 2010

Never a brief day passes without our sighting from two or three to a dozen hove-to on port tack or starboard tack.

CHAPTER XXXVII 2010

Even this position is conjectural, being arrived at by dead reckoning, based on the leeway of a ship hove-to, now on the one tack, now on the other, with always the Great West Wind Drift making against us.

CHAPTER XXXVII 2010

Instead of remaining hove-to on the pampero, Captain West had turned tail and was running before it.

CHAPTER XXX 2010

Fanny, awfully hove-to with rheumatics and injuries received upon the field of sport and glory, chasing pigs, was unable to go up and down stairs, so she sat upon the back verandah, and my work was chequered by her cries.

Vailima Letters 2005

That night we ran away before the wind to the north, next day we lay hove-to till evening, and two days afterwards the gale was repeated, but with still greater violence.

A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2004