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1588 R. Parke tr. J. G. de Mendoza Hist. Kingdome of China 302 They beganne to set sayle to nauigate [Sp. a nauegar] towardes the port.

1614 Sir R. Dudley in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 10 Thoughe they maye be able..to navigat to the West Indies.

1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins 218 The Phoenicians..navigated into the Ocean by the Straits of Gibraltar, established many Colonies.

1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 24 Nov. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1446 In the summer you may navigate as much you please.

1821 R. Southey Exped. Orsua 176 We navigated eleven months, till we reached the mouth of the river.

a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) i. 75 It seemed as if it needed only a little familiarity..to navigate down such falls as Niagara itself with safety.

1894 Daily Chron. 4 Aug. 3/5 I was the only one on board who could navigate.

1907 Trans. Inst. Naval Architects 49 39 The practicability of navigating on the bottom and of opening a door for the purpose of conducting mining operations, &c, together with the hydroplanes, were the features most questioned.

1991 Ships Monthly Apr. 24/3 We sailed out surrounded by loose ice while navigating around larger grounded icebergs.

1652 T. Elsliot True Mariner 5 She may be velociously and nimbly navigated, velificated, and sailed.

1670 R. Coke Disc. Trade 26 Nor must any English man navigate any English built ship..unless she be sailed by ¾ English at least.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. iii. 28 Their great difficulty was to procure a sufficient number of hands to navigate her.

1758 J. Blake Plan Marine Syst. 43 Want of hands to navigate his ships.

1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) X. 600 The harbour boats at Passages being..all navigated by women.

1860 J. Abbott Amer. Hist. I. v. 139 They make boats of a very substantial character, and evince a great deal of skill and courage in navigating them.

1887 M. E. Braddon Like & Unlike I. iii. 78 I know something about navigating a yacht.

1904 J. London Sea-wolf x. 97 From to-day a child will be able to navigate a ship. No more long-winded calculations.

1939 War Illustr. 29 Dec. 526 The superstructure is the nerve centre of the ship from which she is navigated and her gunfire controlled.

1989 Sport Fishing Dec. 52/3 If you are navigating a supertanker, the ability to know where you are to within a vessel length anywhere in the world is a godsend.

1843 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. (1844) I. vii. 109 It warn't no easy matter tu navigate so as not tu git a second ducking, for every nigger in York seemed to be out a washing winders.

1846 Spirit of Times 11 July 234/3 Well, by this time I began to think of navigating.

1881 R. T. Cooke Somebody's Neighbors 88 What are you navigating round me for?

1904 Sun (N.Y.) 9 Aug. 10 She was so drunk that she could barely navigate.

1930 Randolph Enterprise (Elkins, W. Va.) 13 Feb. 1/1 The fellow was..hardly able to navigate as he was carrying a heavy load of Prohibition poison.

1987 B. Bova Voyagers II: Alien Within xxiv. 176 The sidewalk was narrow, and the few pedestrians walking by had to navigate around the little tables or walk out in the brick-paved street.

1996 Washington Post 21 Nov. e 5/1 As he navigated toward the locker room through a flood of well-wishers, McCoy paused to sign autographs.

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xl. 419 No donkeys ever existed that were as hard to navigate as those.

1901 G. B. Shaw Capt. Brassbound's Conversion i, in Three Plays for Puritans 215 Spiritually a little weatherbeaten, as having to navigate his creed in strange waters crowded with other craft.

1994 Face Oct. 62 As if it's not a challenge enough to navigate a wheeled leviathan in and around rush-hour traffic, [etc.].

1996 W. Hutton State we're In (rev. ed.) p. ix Jenny Cottom navigated the book through to publication against tough deadlines with great dedication.

1965 I. Fleming Man with Golden Gun v. 67 Mary Goodnight had insisted on coming along, ‘to navigate and help with the punctures’.

1971 ‘H. Howard’ Million Dollar Snapshot vii. 108 Zombie tossed me the keys. He said, ‘You drive, I'll navigate.’

1995 AA Mag. (Automobile Assoc.) Summer 8/2 His team consisted of Ginger Taylor, from Lockerbie, an AA patrol for 28 years who navigates for a friend on weekend rallies, [etc.].

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 314 The River Oregliana..hath beene navigated 6000 miles. View more context for this quotation

1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins 272 Drusus..was the first who navigated the Northern Ocean.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. x. 97 Six days we navigated, day and night, The briny flood.

1836 W. Irving Astoria II. 179 To send exploring parties on each side of the river, to ascertain whether it was possible to navigate it further.

1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 21 The seas were navigated and islands visited by the aid of the earliest canoes.

1898 Daily Chron. 15 Oct. 6/4 Can they navigate the Redistribution shallows?

1916 E. R. Burroughs Beasts of Tarzan xviii. 273 There was little likelihood of the ape-man attempting to navigate the tortuous channel of the Ugambi while darkness lay upon the surface of the water.

1965 E. J. Howard After Julius ii. xii. 192 Navigating miles of open sea so that you ended up even approximately where you meant to.

1990 D. Shekerjian Uncommon Genius vi. ix. 140 Dr. Gardner's approach to the mind is to navigate the waters of ordinary children, child prodigies, idiots savants, artistic kids, and brain-damaged patients.

1992 New Brunswick Outdoor Adventure Guide 7/1 Some scud the spectacular Bay of Fundy for the unique thrill of navigating the highest tides in the world.

1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn v. 44 When they come [sic] to look at that spare room, they had to take soundings before they could navigate it.

1930 New Statesman 27 Dec. 351/1 Once the earlier stages of the enterprise were successfully navigated.

1952 P. Bowles Let it come Down xvi. 198 It was always difficult to navigate the Zoco Chico with its groups of stationary talkers.

1985 J. Irving Cider House Rules ii. 53 Larch navigated the dark stairs.

1993 R. Shilts Conduct Unbecoming v. xlix. 460 Pete was also learning about the gay generals who had managed to navigate their way around suspicion into top Pentagon jobs.

1758 O. Goldsmith tr. J. Marteilhe Mem. Protestant II. 160 Four half Galleys..were to be sent to Antwerp to navigate on the River Scheld.

1795 J. Phillips Gen. Hist. Inland Navigation (rev. ed.) Add. 114 Every boat which shall navigate only between Stainforth Lock and Hangman Hill.

1835 A. Alison Hist. Europe during French Revol. IV. xxxii. 452 The superior power..can..make prize of all neutral vessels navigating to any of its harbours.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Submarine Boat, a vessel constructed to navigate beneath the surface of the water.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 436/1 A decree requiring that every vessel navigating within sight of its lights should put in there.

1932 Collier's 9 Jan. 34/3 No deep-hulled craft could navigate in that skim of backwater, and officers on foot were certain not to go prowling there.

1984 Pract. Boat Owner Feb. 75/1 It allows a boat to navigate in comparative safety.

1795 J. Phillips Gen. Hist. Inland Navigation (rev. ed.) 319 No vessel drawing above six feet and a half can navigate it, unless the practice of shipping in shallow-bay harbours be adopted.

1819 Western Rev. 1 361 The River is navigated by steam boats, barges, keel boats, schooner barges.

1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 6 Jan. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) i. 5 An..irregular motion, such as the British channel generally communicates to the craft that navigate it.

1878 A. H. Markham Great Frozen Sea i. 4 Ships destined to navigate the icy seas.

1917 A. Conan Doyle His Last Bow viii. 298 It would brighten my declining years to see a German cruiser navigating the Solent according to the minefield plans which I have furnished.

1934 D. Thomas 18 Poems 12 Sleep navigates the tides of time.

1992 S. Holloway Courage High! xxx. 245/1 The river craft were reduced to the..‘London Phoenix’,..able to navigate the shallowest reaches of the river.

1844 J. H. Stocqueler Hand-bk. India 254 The number of vehicles..which navigate the streets.

1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad liii. 559 These vehicles can not navigate the Holy City.

1979 J. P. Hogan Two Faces of Tomorrow viii. 78 The cab navigated Manhattan.

1992 Time 20 Jan. 15/2 A car tailored for the Japanese market..would require..a shorter wheelbase to navigate the narrow streets of Japanese cities.

1784 Universal Mag. 74 p. ii By imitating the action of..wings, sails, oars, and a rudder, we may be able to navigate a Globe [sc. a balloon] in any direction we please.

1819 Democratic Press 21 Sept. 2/3 To ascend first in a balloon of the common construction, and afterwards to carry into operation his principles for navigating air ships.

1877 Design & Work 3 603/1 To build it [sc. an airship] in England, and navigate it to Zanzibar.

1910 Blackwood's Mag. July 5/1 The pilot of an aeroplane is almost wholly occupied with navigating his craft.

1922 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 43/1 Not only had the flying-boats on war service to be navigated but the pilot and observer had also to ‘navigate’ a bomb to its desired target.

1951 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IV. 289/2 Aeroplanes are navigated first by careful planning before the flight, and then by an attempt to keep the course planned throughout the journey.

1966 D. Francis Flying Finish xvii. 199 The V.O.R.—Very high frequency Omni-range—by which one navigated from one radio beacon to the next.

1976 Sci. Amer. June 61/1 The measurements used to navigate U.S. spacecraft are derived from the radio link between the spacecraft and the earth.

1990 Pilot Sept. 22/1 The captain navigated the aircraft through a layer of clouds with the help of the standby magnetic compass, the standby horizon, airspeed indicator and altimeter.

1838 J. H. Pennington Aerostation (caption) Steam-kite, or inclined plane, for navigating the air.

1850 W. Wordsworth Prelude xii. 318 Boldly seeking pleasure nearer heaven On wings that navigate cerulean skies.

1901 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 207/2 Count Zeppelin's airship,..with a row of seventeen balloons inside, for navigating the air, has also pointed cigar-like ends.

1907 Cornhill Mag. May 609 Grotesque and fantastic schemes for navigating the air were put forward.

1927 C. L. M. Brown Conquest of Air 8 Stories of wizards and witches who navigated the upper air with the assistance of tubs and broomsticks.

1987 M. Ondaatje In Skin of Lion (1988) 9 Bugs, plant hoppers, grasshoppers, rust-dark moths. Patrick gazes on these things which have navigated the warm air above the surface of the earth.