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nautic, a. and n.|ˈnɔːtɪk|
Also 7 nautike, -tick.
[ad. F. nautique (c 1500) or L. nautic-us, ad. Gr. ναυτικός, f. ναύτης sailor, ναῦς ship.]
A. adj. Nautical. (Chiefly in poetic or dignified use.) nautic mile: see mile.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1864) 46 Cutting off the Mogols Nautike hands in hindring the mutuall Traffike of their Subiects. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. ii. vi. 75 Neptune..was made to be the God of Nautic Science. 1762Falconer To Dk. of York 201 The incense of a nautic Muse! 1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 305 Orators, as well as poets, celebrate the nautic song. 1813Southey Nelson II. 85 Part of them were drafted into the different regiments, and the remainder formed into a corps, called the nautic legion. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. Introd. 10 The most general nautic dishes and refections. 1867J. B. Rose tr. Virgil's æneid 122 The nautic clamour echoes on the shores.
B. n.
a. pl. The art or science of navigation.
1793W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XI. 564 After..1600, all the branches of nautics came to be generally studied.
b. A sailor, esp. of the Royal Navy.
1909Westm. Gaz. 3 June 4/2 ‘Nautics’ love the spray of the waves more than they do the dust of the roads. 1943B. J. Hurren Eastern Med vi. 76 A complete reversal of policy was now thrust upon an eager company of flying nautics. 1951P. Brickhill Dam Busters xix. 244 A certain..personality at Bomber Command..when he heard the Tirpitz was sunk, [said] ‘That's one in the eye for the Nautics!’ 1973Sunday Tel. 4 Mar. 38/1 The Army did as they had been done by in the first-half. Now it was the Nautics who were under hideous pressure. |