luffs

Meaning of luffs

plural noun
  1. the edge of a fore-and-aft sail next to the mast or stay.
    if your luff is flapping, pull the sail towards you to fill it with wind
verb, 3rd person present
  1. steer a yacht nearer the wind.
    all you need to do is luff up, head to wind

Middle English: from Old French lof, probably from Low German.

Information about luffs

  • The singular form of luffs is: luff.
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Hyphenation of luffs

luffs

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • luffs is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

Anagrams of luffs

sluff

Words that rhyme with luffs

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