Anagrams of: EDGABLY

• To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind.

• Of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom: to shift, often forcefully and suddenly, from one side of a sailing vessel to the other.

• Generally of a small sailing vessel: to change tack with the wind crossing behind the vessel.

• (by extension) Often as gybe at: to balk, hesitate, or vacillate when faced with a course of action, plan, or proposal.

• Alternative spelling of jibe

• to a severe or serious degree

• (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well

• evilly or wickedly

• in a disobedient or naughty way

• with great intensity (`bad' is a nonstandard variant for `badly')

• very much; strongly

• without skill or in a displeasing manner

• in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage

• unfavorably or with disapproval

• with unusual distress or resentment or regret or emotional display

• a person whose head is bald or shaved

• small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button

• covered with beads or jewels or sequins

• an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf

• the sound of a hound on the scent

• small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors

• a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital

• a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose

• a small recess opening off a larger room

• a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color

• (used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color

• utter in deep prolonged tones

• bark with prolonged noises, of dogs

• something to which a mountain climber's rope can be secured

• turn a rope round an object or person in order to secure it or him

• fasten a boat to a bitt, pin, or cleat