English Dictionary

luff

IPA（発音記号）

/lʌf/

動詞

自動詞 属格 前置詞句 他動詞

(nautical, of a sail, intransitive) To shake due to being trimmed improperly. / (nautical, of a boat, intransitive) To alter course to windward so that the sails luff. (Alternatively luff up)

日本語の意味

（航海用語）帆が適切に整えられていないため、風で揺れること / （航海用語）船が風上に向かって進路を変更し、帆を風に合わせて調整すること

When the wind shifted, the mainsail began to luff, and we had to ease the sheet immediately.

風が変わると、メインセールがトリムが合っておらずばたつき始めたので、すぐにシートを緩めなければなりませんでした。

意味（1）

(nautical, of a sail, intransitive) To shake due to being trimmed improperly.

I thought how my life is like a little boat and I must hold the tiller steady against the buffeting of wind and waves, and how sometimes, like this morning, I lose my hold somehow and the sail luffs helplessly and the little vessel wallows, turning this way and that in the swell.

意味（2）

(nautical, of a boat, intransitive) To alter course to windward so that the sails luff. (Alternatively luff up)

意味（3）

(nautical, transitive) to let out (a sail) so that it luffs.

意味（4）

(mechanical) To alter the vertical angle of the jib of a crane so as to bring it level with the load.

The tower is mounted on a slewing platform, which also carries the power plant and the counterweights, while the jib is supported and luffed by fixed pendant ropes.

luffs （ present singular third-person ）

luffing （ participle present ）

luffed （ participle past ）

luffed （ past ）