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Broach to, To
To incline suddenly to windward of the ship's course against the helm, so as to present her side to the wind, and endanger her losing her masts. The difference between broaching to, and bringing by the lee may be thus defined: suppose a ship under great sail is steering south, having the wind at N. N. W. then west is the weather side, and east the lee-side. If, by any accident, her head turn round to the westward, so as that her sails are all taken a-back on the weather-side, she is said to broach to. If, on the contrary, her head declines so far eastward as to lay her sails a-back on that side which was the lee-side, it is called bringing by the lee.
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