Up helm
Definitions
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- Up helm (Naut) the order given to move the tiller toward the upper, or windward, side of a vessel.
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Usage
In literature:
I instantly sprang on deck, and, catching sight of the stranger, put up the helm in chase.
"Hurricane Hurry" by W.H.G. Kingston
Her helm was then put up, and her head-sails filling, she ran off before the wind.
"The Missing Ship" by W. H. G. Kingston
He has put his helm up, and away he goes before the wind.
"Mark Seaworth" by William H.G. Kingston
Do you think, if we put up helm and ran due north, we should come out ahead of her?
"Held Fast For England" by G. A. Henty
So they laced up their helms and fought freshly.
"Stories of King Arthur and His Knights" by U. Waldo Cutler
Yes, yes, put up the helm!
"The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844" by Various
When he had approached within a few rods of me, I put up the helm, and dashed away again towards the pier.
"Breaking Away" by Oliver Optic
Her helm had been put up, and she was running off before the wind.
"Old Jack" by W.H.G. Kingston
Up with the helm at once!
"The Island Treasure" by John Conroy Hutcheson
Donald crowded the helm hard up, so that the Maud wore short around.
"The Yacht Club" by Oliver Optic
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In poetry:
"O where will I get a gude sailor,
To take my helm in hand,
Till I get up to the tall top-mast;
To see if I can spy land?"
To take my helm in hand,
Till I get up to the tall top-mast;
To see if I can spy land?"
"Sir Patrick Spens" by Anonymous British
"O where will I get a gude sail-or
To take my helm in hand,
Till I get up to the tall topmast
To see if I can spy land?"--
To take my helm in hand,
Till I get up to the tall topmast
To see if I can spy land?"--
"Sir Patrick Spens" by Henry Morley
"O here am I, a sailor gude,
To take the helm in hand,
Till you go up to the tall top-mast
But I fear you'll ne'er spy land."
To take the helm in hand,
Till you go up to the tall top-mast
But I fear you'll ne'er spy land."
"Sir Patrick Spens" by Anonymous British
"O here am I, a sailor gude,
To take the helm in hand,
Till you go up to the tall topmast,
But I fear you'll ne'er spy land."
To take the helm in hand,
Till you go up to the tall topmast,
But I fear you'll ne'er spy land."
"Sir Patrick Spens" by Henry Morley
Rocks on all sides, and breakers! at the helm
Weak human hand and weary human eyes.
The shout and clamor of our dreary strife
Goes up conflicting to the angry skies.
Weak human hand and weary human eyes.
The shout and clamor of our dreary strife
Goes up conflicting to the angry skies.
"Consolation" by Harriet Beecher Stowe
"'Cherish him, love.' Why did your long lips cleave
In such strange way unto my fingers then?
So eagerly glad to kiss, so loath to leave
When you rose up? Why among helmed men
In such strange way unto my fingers then?
So eagerly glad to kiss, so loath to leave
When you rose up? Why among helmed men
"King Arthur's Tomb" by William Morris
In news:
I've watched enough Gordon Ramsay shows to know that the secret to
success starts with a manager at the helm whose head is not completely
up his or her ass.
We told you that Anthony Michael Hall was in talks to play Rusty
Griswald again, all grown up, and taking his own family on vacation, but
now we hear that Ed Helms from "The Office", may be playing the part of
"Rusty".
Scott Helms welds up a tubing.
Twentieth Century Fox has paired up with Electronic Arts to turn
the publisher's popular " Spore " game into an animated creature
feature, with "Ice Age's" Chris Wedge attached to helm.
In a holiday shake-up, Verve Records, the renowned jazz label
owned by Universal Music, has been downsized and put under the helm of
Bruce Resnickoff's Universal Music Enterprises.
The Billie Woodruff-helmed film centers on a wife and mother caught up in the throes of sex addiction .
Delta Center gears up for 51st annual Field Day with new director at the helm.
Mustangs fire up with Ramsey at the helm.
News Opinion Columns At the Helm: When I grow up I want to be.
Mustangs fire up with Ramsey at the helm .
Jesse Helms is still stirring up controversy.
The troubled Internet pioneer's stock is up 20% since the former Google executive took the helm at Yahoo in July.
BERLIN- With a new coach at the helm and several new faces up and down READ.
LeMire gave up the job for "personal reasons" after just two years at the helm.
Two of today's great comic talents, Jason Segel and Ed Helms, are teaming up for a new film from Jay and Mark Duplass.
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In science:
In this plot the positions of all diffraction minima fall on top,
as one would expect as long as the Helm model is valid, and even more
the form factors for Ca, Nb and Pb are almost identical and agree up to
the first diffraction minimum with the form factor of a hard sphere.
Nuclear mass form factors from coherent photoproduction of $\pi^0$ mesons
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