† sea-cardn.
Obsolete.in extended use.1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 53 Thus much for..those Rules of Art, those Philosophical Sea-Cards by which the adventuring Genius's of the times were won't to steer their Courses, and govern their impetuous Muse.
1. A chart of the sea (see card n.2 4 and chart n. 1b). Obsolete.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > navigational aids > [noun] > chart
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?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxxv. sig. L iij You shall make a sea carde wherin you may by the former rules place Coastes, Harboroughes, Rockes, Sandes,..with their soundings and depthe of ancorage, &c.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage viii. ii. 729 Pirats..robbing him..forced him to sustaine himselfe with making of Sea-Cardes.
1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. ii. 148 The whole, according to the sea-cards, being the bay of Contessa.
2. The card of the mariner's compass (see card n.2 5).
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1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. vii. f. 77v Knowleage of the sea, carde and compasse.]
a1625 J. Fletcher Chances i. x, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaa3/2 We are all like sea-Cards, All our endeavours and our motions,..still point at beauty.
1666 S. Pepys Diary 22 Sept. (1972) VII. 292 A little gold frame for one of my sea-cards.
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