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round to en · VERB
Meanings
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(dated, intransitive) To turn the head of a ship toward the wind, especially in order to drop speed.
In less than an hour she was close to the reef, where she rounded to, and backed her topsails in order to survey the coast.
1857, R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island:1899', Henry Billings Brown, The New York
she received a signal of two blasts from the steamer Burlington, which, with four barges in tow, had gone down the Canadian side of the river, and was then rounding to at the coal dock on the American side, exhibiting her masthead and green lights to the Conemaugh.
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Synonyms
come to · head up