careen

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CAREEN, verb transitive In sea language, to heave or bring a ship to lie on one side, for the purpose of calking, repairing, cleansing, or paying over with pitch, the other side. CAREEN, verb intransitive To incline to one side, as a ship under a press of sail.
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