WEAR ROUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wear round mean? 

• WEAR ROUND (verb)
  The verb WEAR ROUND has 1 sense:

1. turn into the wind

  Familiarity information: WEAR ROUND used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WEAR ROUND (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Turn into the wind

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

tack; wear round

Context example:

The boat tacked

Hypernyms (to "wear round" is one way to...):

sail (travel on water propelled by wind)

Domain category:

navigation; pilotage; piloting (the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place)

boat (a small vessel for travel on water)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

"Perhaps I am!" he answered quietly as he began to make the wreath which Lucy was to wear round her neck.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

As he did so the narrow black velvet band which she seems always to wear round her throat, buckled with an old diamond buckle which her lover had given her, was dragged a little up, and showed a red mark on her throat.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)