Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Sailors' slang Having the sails set in the manner called
wing-and-wing .
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- adjective nautical, slang Having the
sails set in the manner called wing and wing.
Etymologies
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Apparently an invented past tense of wing; compare swing, swung and ring, rung.
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