wear round

1. 1.

   turn into the wind

   “The sailors decided to tack the boat”

   “The boat tacked”

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Questions about wear round

What does wear round mean?

wear round means "turn into the wind".

What is another word for wear round?

Close synonyms include tack. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wear round a common word?

wear round is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.