good leg

good leg (plural good legs)

1. (nautical) A course sailed on a tack near to the desired course.
   • 1848, James Fenimore Cooper, Jack Tier:

     In a minute or two the Swash was under what Mrs. Budd might have called her "attacking" canvas, and was close by the wind, looking on a good leg well up the harbour.

• “leg”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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