Going Off Large
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
This is a nau. tical phrase, and signifies having the wind frees on either tack.
1 Newb. Adm. 8, 26; 6 Mc Lean, 152, 170.
A vess:], in nautical technicality, “is going off large’- when the wind blows from some point “abaft tle beam;” is going “be- ’ ship are bracedsquareacross.
1 Newb. Adin, 115.