He vents his anger violently.

Where a sail vessel close hauled and a steam vessel approach so as to involve risk of collision, the rule requiring the sail vessel to keep her course requires her to beat out her tack. … She is not required to tack short on signal from the steam vessel when there is danger in so doing, nor need she remain in stays or overreach longer than usual when such measures are not apparently necessary to avoid a collision.

There is a third reason for misdescription: the drafter's irrepressible impulse to overdescribe.

I do not like the fashion of your garments.