Crossword-Solution: LUFFS 5 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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LUFFS anagram SLUFF

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Parts of fore-and-aft sails 1 answer
Sails close to the wind 1 answer
Sails closer to the wind. 1 answer
Sails nearer the wind 1 answer
Turns toward the wind: Naut. 1 answer
Flaps, as a sail 2 answers
SAIL close to the wind 4 answers
Sailing maneuvers 4 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with LUFFS (5)

The next time they came out, we would notice their sticks cut down, their booms shortened, and their after-leeches nearer the luffs by whole cloths.
The Human Drift Jack London 2005
Even the lower rigging may be got off all ready fitted from the loft; while the runners and tackles, the luffs, and other purchases, may be put in preparation for use the moment there are hands enough to employ on them.
The Lieutenant and Commander Basil Hall 2005
With no pilot and unspoken, Where the dancing breakers are, Presently she veers and races In across the roaring bar,-- Rounds and luffs and comes to anchor, While the wharf begins to throng.
Ballads of Lost Haven Bliss Carman 2006
When both these services of providing and casting loose have been performed, and the luffs choked or hitched and trucks chocked, the men are all to return to the guns at which they were mustered, and, taking their places, await in silence further orders, if not already given.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. Bureau of Ordnance, USN 2006
The 2d Sponger and 2d Loader haul taut side-tackles and choke luffs, or, if rolling deep, hitch the falls round the straps of the blocks, and then unshackle the old breeching and shackle the new, which is to be brought to the gun by the 2d Captain.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. Bureau of Ordnance, USN 2006

Quotes with LUFFS (1)

Beh reaches up and touches my cheek.“Love,” she whispers.“Luffs!” I respond, and her smile brightens even more. Without a doubt, I will do anything for her.
Shay Savage Transcendence
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 9 times in crossword archives (1957–2014).