'To eat to windward' definitions:

Definition of 'To eat to windward'

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Eat \Eat\, v. i.
1. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board. [1913 Webster]
He did eat continually at the king's table. --2 Sam. ix. 13. [1913 Webster]
2. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef. [1913 Webster]
3. To make one's way slowly. [1913 Webster]
To eat, To eat in or To eat into, to make way by corrosion; to gnaw; to consume. "A sword laid by, which eats into itself." --Byron.
To eat to windward (Naut.), to keep the course when closehauled with but little steering; -- said of a vessel. [1913 Webster]