Found 1 items, similar to To eat to windward.
English → English (gcide) Definition: To eat to windward Eat \Eat\, v. i. 1. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board. [1913 Webster] He did eat continually at the king's table. --2 Sam. ix. 13. [1913 Webster] 2. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef. [1913 Webster] 3. To make one's way slowly. [1913 Webster] To eat, To eat in or To eat into, to make way by corrosion; to gnaw; to consume. “A sword laid by, which eats into itself.” --Byron. To eat to windward (Naut.), to keep the course when closehauled with but little steering; -- said of a vessel. [1913 Webster]