What is "wear round"

Usage examples of "wear round".

I'm going to wear round, shoot up into wind, let go the larboard bower anchor and drift back.

The game plan is for us to wear round to the port tack after we pass side to side.

But already she was turning the gold band she continued to wear round and round her finger.

Before the Calypso could wear round and begin to escape one or both of the ships would bear up to loose a broadside into her: 32-pounder shot would crash through her hull .

Before he has time to wear round again we've got away in the boats - after putting the ensign halyard in the hands of one of the wounded, so he can surrender the ship!

A few things I recall clearlylike the locket she used to wear round her neck, with her initials on it in wee red stones.

The French were coming down under easy sail, the Marengo leading: it was not clear what they meant to do, but the general opinion among the older seamen was that they would presently wear round on to the same tack as the Indiamen, steer a parallel course and engage the centre and van in the usual way, using their greater speed to pass along it.

Its southern extremity was the point he must reach in order to wear round and run into the shelter, the safety of Douarnenez Bay, once he had reached that southern end there would be no difficulty, but of course he could only reach it close-hauled on the larboard tack and as they ran it became more and more evident that the beginning of the turn must lie far along, right down by the Thatcher itself.

The young man certainly knew that Captain Spottiswood lacked all authority, and that the Lord Nelson moved like a log, and that she had twice missed stays off Cape Trafalgar, having to wear round at last: but there was certainly no point in putting this into words.

What you wear round your neck, as I have told you, is the graduale.