Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To shake due to being trimmed improperly. · To bring the ship's head up closer to the wind. (Alternatively luff up) · to let out (a sail) so that it luffs. · To alter the vertical angle of the jib of a crane so as to bring it level with the load.
The vertical edge of a sail that is closest to the direction of the wind. · The act of sailing a ship close to the wind. · The roundest part of a ship's bow. · The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
From Old French lof. Collins English Dictionary states that this word is ultimately derived from Middle Dutch loef. Ellert Ekwall's Shakspere's Vocabulary: its etymological elements (1903) related this verb and loof instead to the East Frisian verb lofen, lufen, which would make it cognate to the French term lover.
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