'To right the helm' definitions:
Definition of 'To right the helm'
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- Helm \Helm\, n. [OE. helme, AS. helma rudder; akin to D. & G. helm, Icel. hj[=a]lm, and perh. to E. helve.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. (Naut.) The apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel alone. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The place or office of direction or administration. "The helm of the Commonwealth." --Melmoth. [1913 Webster]
- 3. One at the place of direction or control; a steersman; hence, a guide; a director. [1913 Webster]
- The helms o' the State, who care for you like fathers. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. [Cf. Helve.] A helve. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- Helm amidships, when the tiller, rudder, and keel are in the same plane.
- Helm aport, when the tiller is borne over to the port side of the ship.
- Helm astarboard, when the tiller is borne to the starboard side.
- Helm alee, Helm aweather, when the tiller is borne over to the lee or to the weather side.
- Helm hard alee, Helm hard aport, Helm hard astarboard, etc., when the tiller is borne over to the extreme limit.
- Helm port, the round hole in a vessel's counter through which the rudderstock passes.
- Helm down, helm alee.
- Helm up, helm aweather.
- To ease the helm, to let the tiller come more amidships, so as to lessen the strain on the rudder.
- To feel the helm, to obey it.
- To right the helm, to put it amidships.
- To shift the helm, to bear the tiller over to the corresponding position on the opposite side of the vessel. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'To right the helm'
From: GCIDE
- Right \Right\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Righted; p. pr. & vb. n. Righting.] [AS. rihtan. See Right, a.]
- 1. To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate. [1913 Webster]
- So just is God, to right the innocent. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. --Jefferson. [1913 Webster]
- To right a vessel (Naut.), to restore her to an upright position after careening.
- To right the helm (Naut.), to place it in line with the keel. [1913 Webster]