Cuffed vs Luffed - What's the difference?
cuffed | luffed |
(cuff)
(obsolete) glove; mitten.
The end of a shirt sleeve that covers the wrist.
The end of a pants leg, folded up.
To hit, as a reproach, particularly with the open palm to the head; to slap.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
To fight; to scuffle; to box.
* Dryden
To buffet.
* Tennyson
A blow, especially with the open hand; a box; a slap.
* Spenser
* Hudibras
(luff)
(nautical) The vertical edge of a sail that is closest to the direction of the wind.
(nautical) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
(nautical) The roundest part of a ship's bow.
(nautical) The forward or weather leech of a sail, especially of the jib, spanker, and other fore-and-aft sails.
(nautical, of a sail, intransitive) To shake due to being trimmed improperly.
(nautical, of a boat, intransitive) To alter course to windward so that the sails luff. (Alternatively luff up )
(nautical) to let out [a sail] so that it luffs.
(mechanical) To alter the vertical angle of the jib of a crane so as to bring it level with the load.
* {{quote-book
, year=1999
, author=Howard I. Shapiro, Jay P. Shapiro, Lawrence K. Shapiro
, title=Cranes and Derricks
, page=95
, isbn=0070578893
As verbs the difference between cuffed and luffed
is that cuffed is past tense of cuff while luffed is past tense of luff.cuffed
English
Verb
(head)cuff
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) cuffe, .Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
1520, “to hit”, apparently of (etyl) origin, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l), (l).Verb
(en verb)- I swear I'll cuff you, if you strike again.
- They with their quills did all the hurt they could, / And cuffed the tender chickens from their food.
- While the peers cuff to make the rabble sport.
- cuffed by the gale
Noun
(en noun)- Snatcheth his sword, and fiercely to him flies; / Who well it wards, and quitten cuff with cuff.
- Many a bitter kick and cuff .
luffed
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* *luff
English
Noun
(en noun)- By easing the halyard, the luff of the sail was made to sag to leeward.
Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=The tower is mounted on a slewing platform, which also carries the power plant and the counterweights, while the jib is supported and luffed by fixed pendant ropes.}}