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Ca-reen′ing.


Nautical.) The operation of exposing a part of a ship's bottom by a purchase applied to the masts to tilt them laterally from the perpendicular. It was careening that upset the “Royal George” in 1782 at Spithead: —

They
Had made the vessel heel,
And laid her on her side.

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