Definition of "becalm" in Anglais

verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To make calm or still; make quiet; calm.

2. (transitive, nautical) To deprive (a ship) of wind, so that it cannot move (usually in passive).

   • 1555, Richard Eden (translator), The decades of the newe worlde or west India conteynyng the nauigations and conquestes of the Spanyardes by Peter Martyr d’Anghiera, 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.