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单词 sun-shooter
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sun-shooter
sun-shooter n. Nautical slang (now rare) a person who ascertains the altitude of the sun using a sextant or other navigational instrument in order to determine the latitude of his or her ship; (later more generally) a navigator; cf. to shoot (also take) the sun at Phrases 2c(a).
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society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > sailor > sailors involved in specific duties or activities > [noun] > helmsman or pilot > skilled pilot or navigator > who takes observations of sun
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1599 E. Wright Certaine Errors Navigation Pref. to Rdr. sig. ¶¶4 Them that obserued the Sunne or starres for finding the latitude, they would call sun-shooters, and starre shooters, and aske if they had hit it.
1886 Tinsley's Mag. Oct. 373 The group of sunshooters on the quarter-deck.
1923 Motor Boating Aug. 110/2 Another time, if anybody has the temerity to take me along as sun-shooter, I shall probably be among those who strike to south'ard and fetch up to windward of Bermuda.
1940 Yachting May 86/2 When you make your landfall..don't relax and let your shipmates pat you on the back and tell you what a fine sun-shooter you are.
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