hidden pixel

Answer the Helm Definition

answer the helm

English

Verb

answer the helm

  1. (nautical, for a ship) To respond to a movement of the helm by changing direction; only happens if the ship has steerageway.

 

The above information uses material from Wiktionary and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Some facts may not have been fully verified for accuracy. [Disclaimers]
This page was last archived by our server on Thu Mar 1 07:22:06 2012.
Displaying this page or its contents does not use any Wikimedia Foundation's resources.
The owners of this site proudly support the Wikimedia Foundation.