becalm

Etymology
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Verb

 * 1)  To make calm or still; make quiet; calm.
 * 2)  To deprive (a ship) of wind, so that it cannot move (usually in passive).
 * 3) * 1555, (translator),  by, London: Edward Sutton, “The seconde v[o]yage to Guinea,” p. 351,
 * there we were becalmed the .xx. day of Nouember from .vi. of the clocke in the mornynge vntyll foure of the clocke at after none.
 * 1)  To deprive (a ship) of wind, so that it cannot move (usually in passive).
 * 2) * 1555, (translator),  by, London: Edward Sutton, “The seconde v[o]yage to Guinea,” p. 351,
 * there we were becalmed the .xx. day of Nouember from .vi. of the clocke in the mornynge vntyll foure of the clocke at after none.