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O OAKHAM or OAKUM to OPEN with a place OAKHAM or OAKUM OAR OBSERVATION OFF OFFING OFFWARD OKER OLERON OPEN to the wind or sea OPEN with a place OPENING to OUT-FIT OUT OF TRIM to OWNER Search Contact us
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OFFOFF, an expression applied to the movement of a ship, when she sails out from the shore towards the distant sea. When a ship is beating to windward, so that by one board the approaches towards the shore, and by the other sails out to sea-ward, the is said to stand off and on shore, alternately. Hence,
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