good leg

noun

A course sailed on a tack near to the desired course.

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Meanings

noungood leg (plural good legs)

plural good legs

  1. nauticalA course sailed on a tack near to the desired course.

    In a minute or two the Swash was under what Mrs. Budd might have called her "attacking" canvas, and was close by the wind, looking on a good leg well up the harbour.

    1848, James Fenimore Cooper, Jack Tier
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Chicago

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