Way (vessel)

Way, (sometimes Weigh) in a nautical context of a ship or vessel, is a noun that refers to her speed or momentum. Some derived terms are making way, leeway, and right of way.

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The Oxford English Dictionary, sense 14, has "She ran into the Nio before her way could be stopped." (Taken from an Admiralty report of a collision at sea).^[1]
The Practice of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy has "On the other hand, we have seen several ships break their chains by having too much way upon them".^[2]
From a mistaken association with "to weigh anchor", the noun is sometimes spelled 'weigh', per Oxford English Dictionary, sense 2 as in "She got under weigh with very little fuss" (R. H. Dana Two Years before the Mast xxiii. 236).^[3]

↑ Oxford English Dictionary, "way" sense 14^{[full citation needed]}
↑ Bergen, William Cully (1872). Practice of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy. Oxford University Press. p. 338. Search this book on
↑ Oxford English Dictionary, "weigh" sense 2^{[full citation needed]}

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