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Definition of Can buoy
1. Noun. A buoy with a round bottom and conical top.
Definition of Can buoy
1. Noun. (nautical) a truncated conical buoy, normally painted red and white, and numbered with even numbers, used to show the port side of a channel; the starboard side is marked with a conical buoy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Can Buoy
Literary usage of Can buoy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1857)
"T.8, red can buoy will be moved NEby N.80 fathoms into 12 feet at low water. 8.
V. 1, striped horizontally red and white can buoy, will be moved NW by W. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"Iron can-buoy, run into by a British bark June 17, 1884, about twelve miles ...
Large iron can-buoy, which from appearances had been floating a very long ..."
3. Monthly Nautical Magazine, and Quarterly Review (1857)
"V 3, red can buoy NE by N 30 fathoms into 12 feet, with Formby light vessel
bearing N by E easterly, distant 3-8 of a mile; V 3, black nun buoy VV J of a ..."
4. The Colombian Navigator; Or, Sailing Directory for the American Coasts and by John Purdy (1839)
"3 miles, to abreast the False Hook, near the lighthouse, and thence West, a mile
and a half, to a black can buoy on the SW spit of the East Bank ; and, ..."
5. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1857)
"Nautical Intelligence. ered) can buoy was moved 100 fathoms NNE, into 10 feet at
... Red and white (striped horizontally) Small can buoy, on the south side. ..."
6. Australia Pilot by United States Hydrographic Office (1920)
"1 black can buoy, on the edge of the bank off Queenscliff Bight, at 1400 yards
... A black can buoy nearly 1600 yards eastward from Swan Point and 300 yards ..."
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