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vb. (present participle of heel over English)
Usage examples of "heeling over".
A flash, and it came out vividly, heeling over one way with two feet in the air, to vanish and reappear almost instantly as it seemed, with the next flash, a hundred yards nearer.
The gunships shed velocity by heeling over and using their repulsorlift engines like retrothrusters.
The Sophie came round fast and brought the wind on to her beam: heeling over so that the silk black water lapped at her port-sills, she raced towards the nearest gunboat.
The Sutherland came round, heeling over with the wind abeam and a trifle more canvas than was safe.
At night in particular, with the more sai yards heeling over towards the bursting spray and the deck little his feet, he had felt an enduring more than a blur far beneath terror.
The wind was now more favourable, and having increased somewhat in strength, the Susan made her way briskly along, heeling over till the water ran along her scuppers.
The ship reeled, heeling over so steeply that Pinney was flung across the wheelhouse.
They very soon stopped catching their breaths every time a harder puff of wind sent the Titmouse heeling over, and Tom said they would do all right as soon as they had learnt that when you are steering you must think of nothing else.
The caique surged back in a receding trough, steadied, then swept in against the cliff again, heeling over so wildly that the roof of the wheelhouse smashed and telescoped against the wall of the cliff.
The whole slowly spinning cone-ship lurched to one side and came close to heeling over into a disastrous tumble.
The ferry slowed and turned, heeling over alarmingly as it turned broadside to the storm, and headed back.
The cutter was under a perfect cloud of sail, heeling over at forty-five degrees.