becalmed
English
Adjective
becalmed (comparative more becalmed, superlative most becalmed)
- (nautical) (of a sailing ship) unable to move due to lack of wind
- 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique:
- ...when we got aſterne we grew becalm'd, land-lockt in a fort, and were ſported all the way...
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
- Although the breeze had now utterly failed, we had made a great deal of way during the night, and were now lying becalmed about half a mile to the southeast of the low eastern coast.
- 1638, Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique:
Verb
becalmed
- simple past tense and past participle of becalm
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