Also 7–8 (Naut.) lust. [Of obscure origin: perh. a use of LIST sb.4]
1. Naut. The careening or inclination of a ship to one side.
1633. T. James, Voy., 82. The Ship at low water had a great lust to the offing.
1658. Phillips, Lust of a ship.
1834. M. Scott, Cruise Midge, ii. (1842), 30. What a list to port she is getting!
1881. Daily News, 11 Nov., 2/6. The cargo shifted giving the ship a list to port.
1883. Times, 4 Jan., 8. The vessel gave a sudden list to starboard.
2. transf. A leaning over (of a building, etc.).
1793. Smeaton, Edystone L., § 85. The whole building had got a considerable List or leaning to the S.W.
1901. Longm. Mag., Sept., 396. Two lines of straggling fence running with all sorts of lists and bends.
