Noun: luff
Sample Sentences
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By easing the halyard, the luff of the sail was made to sag to leeward.
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"The man at the helm was watching the luff of the sail and whistling away gently to himself." [1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:]
Nouns inflected like luff
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old French lof. Collins English Dictionary states that this word is ultimately derived from Middle Dutch loef. Ellert Ekwall's Shakspere's Vocabulary: its etymological elements (1903) related this verb and loof instead to the East Frisian verb lofen, lufen, which would make it cognate to the French term lover.
Verbs referencing "luff"
German Nouns
Luv.