becalmed

adjective

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Unable to move due to lack of wind.
“[…] when we got aſterne we grew becalm'd, land-lockt in a fort, and were ſported all the way […]”
“Although the breeze had now utterly failed, we had made a great deal of way during the night, and were now lying becalmed about half a mile to the southeast of the low eastern coast.”