Luffed vs Sluffed - What's the difference?

luffed | sluffed |

As verbs the difference between luffed and sluffed

is that luffed is past tense of luff while sluffed is past tense of sluff.

luffed

English

Verb

(head)

(luff)

Anagrams

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luff

English

Noun

(en noun)

(nautical) The vertical edge of a sail that is closest to the direction of the wind.

By easing the halyard, the luff of the sail was made to sag to leeward.

(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.

Verb

(en verb)

(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 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.}}

Derived terms

* luff alee * luffing crane * luff round * luff tackle * luff upon luff

References

sluffed

English

Verb

(head)

(sluff)

Anagrams

sluff

English

Alternative forms

* slough

Noun

(en noun)

(skin shed by a snake or other reptile).

That is the sluff of a rattler; we must be careful.

(dead skin on a sore or ulcer).

This is the sluff that came off of his skin after the burn.

An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.

* {{quote-web, date=2002-03-02, author=Sid Perkins, title=Avalanche! Scientists are digging out the secrets of lethal flows of snow., site=The Free Library, url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Avalanche!+Scientists+are+digging+out+the+secrets+of+lethal+flows+of+...-a084054171,

, passage=At least for small sluffs like the ones Brown and his colleagues have triggered, the avalanche slides like a block of material instead of flowing like a fluid.}}

Verb

(en verb)

(to shed or to slide off).

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ignore, shrug (off)

(discard).

* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 16, author=Phillip Alder, title=At a Florida Game, an Unusual Double Squeeze, work=New York Times citation

, passage=If either played another club, declarer would ruff on the board and sluff his diamond queen.}}

to avoid working

He's sluffing off somewhere.

Derived terms

* sluffy