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单词 to prick the chart
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to prick the chart (†card, plot)
23. transitive. To mark or trace something on (a surface) by pricks or dots; esp. to prick the chart (card, plot): to mark the position or course of a ship by pricks or dots on a chart, etc.; (also) to mark or trace (a position, direction, design, etc.) on a surface by pricks or dots (in quot. 1665-76, with pegs). Also with down, off, out.
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society > communication > indication > marking > mark [verb (transitive)] > with dots
prick1576
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (transitive)] > work out a course > mark position on chart
prick1576
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > perform general or industrial manufacturing processes [verb (transitive)] > other processes
cure1633
scribe1678
refinish1820
retort1850
prick1872
supple1876
whizz1882
steam-cure1910
linish1971
1576 H. Gilbert Disc. Discov. New Passage Cataia x. sig. I.i And haue also deuised therein..a precise order to prick the sea carde, together with certaine infallible rules for the shortening of any discouerie.
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes I was but one..to sit at sterne, to pricke my carde, to watch vpon the vpper decke.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xv. 73 To learne to..know the tides, your Roomes, pricke your Card, say your Compasse.
1665–76 J. Rea Flora (ed. 2) 5 Prick down a line eight or ten foot long.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. iv. xv. 196 To find the Latitude, Rhomb, and Longitude, and..to prick the same down in a Blank Chart.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) To prick the Chart or Plot at Sea, signifies to make a Point in their Chart whereabout the Ship is now.
1750 J. Atkinson Compl. Syst. Navigation viii. 192 Those places may be pricked down in the Chart, and then with a black Lead Pencil draw Lines from Place to Place.
1772 J. R. Forster tr. L.-A. de Bougainville Voy. round World 413 Pricking off our point at noon upon the chart.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Pricking her off, marking a ship's position upon a chart by the help of a scale and compasses.
1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 95/2 The lights of the eyes..must all be pricked out with a fine needle.
1875 T. Seaton Man. Fret Cutting 144 With a very fine steel point prick out lightly the whole pattern.
1903 G. S. Wasson Cap'n Simeon's Store 57 She pricked off a new course for my woman to run, plain as could be.
1940 C. Roth Jewish Contribution to Civilization 80 With the aid of this instrument, it was thus possible to prick the chart while at sea.
1992 M. Margetts Classic Crafts 23/1 With this method, the basic outline is usually pricked on and the fine details of the pattern are filled in by hand.
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