单词 | traverse sailing |
释义 | > as lemmastraverse sailing traverse sailing n. Nautical (now chiefly historical) (a) a method of navigation employed when sailing by means of traverses (see sense 16), using dead reckoning based on a record of the course taken to establish a vessel's position; (b) the practice of sailing in this way, typically tacking in order to reach a point to windward. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > [noun] > beating against the wind > tacking boardinga1618 tacking1675 traverse sailing1715 1715 H. Wilson Navigation new Modell’d iii. 101 I have of Purpose omitted Traverse Sailing in the Geometrical Part. 1787 A. Clarke in Life (1840) App. 154 After much traverse sailing, occasioned by the wind being almost directly opposite, we came to anchor. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 169/2 Traverse sailing..is merely the sailing on different points of the compass, for short distances, in succession. 2016 For Learning of Math. 36 6/1 Traverse sailing applies the principles of plane sailing to situations when there are two or more courses. < as lemmas |
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