Word: winded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beat, sailing into the wind...
...sailing with the wind astern...
Reach, sailing with the wind roughly at a right angle to the boat...
Point, heading as close into the wind as possible without luffing...
Tack, the course a boat is pursuing in terms of the direction from which the wind hits her bow (a boat is on starboard tack if the wind is blowing from the right-hand side, a port tack if from the left-hand side). To tack is to change course while sailing into the wind...