nauticsn.
/ˈnɔːtɪks/, U.S. /ˈnɔdɪks/, /ˈnɑdɪks/ The art or science of sailing or navigation.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > [noun] > art or science of
ship-craft1398
shipman-craft1418
marinage1511
marinership1542
navigation1559
watercraft1566
shipmastery1593
marinary1684
sea-craft1727
seamanship1766
nautics1793
boatmanship1812
sailorship1820
watermanship1830
shipmanship1838
seamancraft1871
wayfinding1871
1793 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 11 564 After..1600, all the branches of nautics came to be generally studied.
1904 G. S. Hall Adolescence II. 259 There was also special training in swimming and nautics, as rowing and sailing.
1952 D. M. Jones Anathemata v. 135 Learned much of the dear God's created orbis from such as navigate and circumnavigate from tarpaulins and salts, clerks of nautics that thither from the known to the knowable and hither again.
1992 Lloyd's List (Nexis) 4 Apr. 2 The themes on which he writes in part one range from ancient times and the mysteries of Thule, Phoenician and Polynesian nautics, to nautical customs, Nelson and Trafalgar.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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- to get or put in the pudding club
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