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cruising, vbl. n.
[f. cruise v.]
a. The action of sailing to and fro; also transf.
1690Lond. Gaz. No. 2532/2 The Plimouth is come in from Cruising. 1839–40W. Irving Wolfert's R. (1855) 219 The chimerical cruisings of Old Ponce de Leon in search of the Fountain of Youth.
b. spec. The action of walking or driving about the streets in search of a casual sexual partner (cf. cruise v. 1 d.) slang.
1927A. J. Rosanoff Man. Psychiatry (ed. 6) 203 In the most respectable class [of homosexuals] are those who do no ‘cruising’. 1942Z. N. Hurston in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 223/2 He had plenty to get across and maybe do a little more cruising besides. 1981H. Carpenter W. H. Auden i. v. 97 The length of the list might suggest that Auden was in the habit of ‘cruising’—picking up boys for casual sex.
c. attrib., as (cruise v. sense 1 a) cruising-ground, cruising-shirt, cruising-trade, cruising-vessel; (cruise v. sense 1 b) cruising-altitude, cruising-height; cruising radius, range, the maximum distance that the fuel capacity of a ship or aircraft will allow her to travel and return at cruising speed; cruising speed, the best economic travelling speed for a ship or vehicle, esp. an aircraft.
1951Gloss. Aeronaut. Terms (B.S.I.) III. 19 Cruising height (cruising altitude), a constant altimeter indication, in relation to a fixed and defined datum, maintained during a flight or portion thereof. 1958Listener 16 Oct. 593/1 The pressurised cabin was subject to cyclic reversals of load as the aircraft climbed to cruising altitude.
1780Capt. Hope in Lett. S. Hood (1895) 11 But could not learn what latitude their cruizing ground was in. 1851Melville Moby Dick II. ix. 61 The..Pequod had slowly swept across four several cruising-grounds. 1968Globe Mag. (Toronto) 13 Jan. 7/3 Certain parks..become known as favorite cruising grounds.
1951Cruising height [see cruising altitude above]. 1956‘N. Shute’ Beyond Black Stump 237 They were off the ground and climbing up to cruising height.
1927G. Bradford Gloss. Sea Terms 45/2 Cruising radius is calculated with two points of view—one, the vessel's capacity in miles without refueling; the other, her capacity to remain at sea expressed in days running at normal speed.
1922M. Luckiesh Bk. of Sky xxi. 230 These huge flying-machines with a cruising range of a thousand miles.
1959J. Braine Vodi vi. 94 One of those woollen shirts with a fastener at the throat—cruising shirts they called them.
1919Sphere 26 Apr. 67/2 The single-engine machine is the faster at full and cruising speeds. 1928Daily Chron. 9 Aug. 3/6 It will have a ‘cruising speed’ of 15 miles an hour. 1935P. W. F. Mills Elem. Practical Flying iii, It is usual to describe performances in terms of both maximum and cruising speeds—the latter being the speed at which the aeroplane flies level with the engine running at the cruising revolutions recommended by the makers. 1958Listener 30 Oct. 683/1 You want a car that has..a high cruising speed.
1720De Foe Capt. Singleton xiii. (1840) 226 We pretended to carry on our cruising trade.
1878N. Amer. Rev. CXXVII. 382 A cruising-vessel. |