TO GAIN THE WIND

Definition: TO GAIN THE WIND

TO GAIN THE WIND

1. (Naut.), to reach the windward side of another ship. Syn: To obtain; acquire; get; procure; win; earn; attain; achieve. Usage: See Obtain . -- To Gain , Win . Gain implies only that we get something by exertion; win, that we do it in competition with others. A person gains knowledge, or gains a prize, simply by striving for it; he wins a victory, or wins a prize, by taking it in a struggle with others.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Anagrams: TO GAIN THE WIND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-h-i-i-n-n-o-t-t-w"
	-3 letters: antidoting, detonating, nationwide.
	-4 letters: antiwhite, attending, dentition, detaining, hoidening, intonated, negotiant, whitening.
	-5 letters: anointed, antidote, antinode, athetoid, awninged, denoting, digitate, dittoing, donating, enditing, endowing, gnathion, gnathite, ideating, ideation, indigent, indowing, intonate, intwined, iodating, iodinate, naething, negation, nonwhite, notating, tainting, tetanoid, thindown, thionate, thionine, tightwad, tithonia, twinight, wantoned, whetting, whinnied, widening.
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