pilotshipn.
/ˈpʌɪlətʃɪp/, U.S. /ˈpaɪlətˌʃɪp/ Now rare.
The discharge of the office or function of pilot; the action or skill of piloting a vessel. Also figurative.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > [noun] > pilotage
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1612 F. Cotton Let. Nov. in F. C. Danvers Lett. E. India Company (1896) (modernized text) I. 203 If he had not gone about to cross the master and stand upon the pilotship we might have been in Bantam road a month or 6 weeks before we were.
1648 E. Sherburne in tr. Seneca Medea 90 (note) Who this should be that succeeded Typhis in the Pylot-ship of Argos is not agreed on.
1692 London Gaz. No. 2814/3 They committed the Pilotship to the 5 Dutch Men.
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. iii. i. 158 Whither bound? On what Business? Under whose Pilotship, Government, or Protection?
1808 J. N. Barker Tears & Smiles i. 18 A plague upon your pilotship, you stupid.
1886 Littell's Living Age 27 Feb. 522/2 A large number of remedial measures which owed their success to his energetic pilotship.
1958 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 52 1116/2 Such arts as medicine and pilotship.
2004 Toronto Star (Nexis) 19 May a23 If the world can be anti-America [sic] under its current pilotship, this could easily turn to anti-Americanism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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