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Weatherly

adj, name

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Able to sail close to the wind with little leeway.
Adjective
  1. 1
    (of a sailing vessel) making very little leeway when close-hauled wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.

Etymology

From weather (“direction from which the wind blows”) + -ly (“characteristic of”).

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