gather way | Idiomator

Meaning: (nautical,idiomatic,dated)Tobegintomove; (nautical,idiomatic,dated)to move with increasingspeed1844,James Fenimore Cooper,Afloat and Ashore:The boat beginning togather way, too, I threw Sennit the end of a lower-studding-sail halyards, that were brought aft for the purpose, ordered his bowman to let go his hold of the tackle, and dropped the boat a safe towing distance astern1889, Harry Collingwood,The Missing Merchantman:The ship tacked with the same admirable precision as before, and ongathering waywas found to be looking well up for the entrance to the narrow channel.; (nautical,idiomatic,dated)to getheadwaybysailorsteamso as toanswerthehelm.

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