weatherliness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

weatherliness
    n 1: (of a sailing vessel) the quality of being able to sail
         close to the wind with little drift to the leeward (even in
         a stiff wind); "the Spanish ships had superior speed and
         weatherliness"

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Weatherliness \Weath"er*li*ness\, n. (Naut.)
   The quality of being weatherly.
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