Adjust as a ships sail
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TRIMAdjust, as a ship's sail
trimadjust (as cargo or a sail) to a desired position
synecdochea figure of speech by which a part is used for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as the smiling year for spring)
synecdochesSYNECDOCHE, a figure of speech by which a part is used for the whole (as fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as the smiling year for spring)
synecdochicallyfigure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special, as in ten sail for ten ships or a Croesus for a rich man
tracksA strip on the mast, boom, or deck of a yacht along which a slide attached to a sail can be moved, used to adjust the position of the sail