Engineering:Way (vessel)
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Short description: Ship's speed or momentum
Way, (sometimes Weigh) in a nautical context of a ship or vessel, is a noun that refers to her speed or momentum. Some derived terms are making way, leeway, and right of way.
Examples
- The Oxford English Dictionary, sense 14, has "She ran into the Nio before her way could be stopped." (Taken from an Admiralty report of a collision at sea).[1]
- The Practice of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy has "On the other hand, we have seen several ships break their chains by having too much way upon them".[2]
- From a mistaken association with "to weigh anchor", the noun is sometimes spelled 'weigh', per Oxford English Dictionary, sense 2 as in "She got under weigh with very little fuss" (R. H. Dana Two Years before the Mast xxiii. 236).[3]
See also
- Way (disambiguation)
Notes
- ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, "way" sense 14Template:Incomplete citation
- ↑ Bergen, William Cully (1872). Practice of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy. Oxford University Press.
- ↑ Oxford English Dictionary, "weigh" sense 2Template:Incomplete citation
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