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Definition of Change course
1. Verb. Shift from one side of the ship to the other. "The sail jibbed wildly"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Change Course
Literary usage of Change course
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ten Months Among the Tents of the Tuski: With Incidents of an Arctic Boat by William Hulme Hooper (1853)
"Arrangement of Villages.—Necessary to travel with Dogs.—Preparations.—Deceit.—Costume
for Travelling.— Bad Weather.—change course. ..."
2. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1918)
"... failure of one of two end-on meeting vessels to change course to starboard
does not excuse failure of other to do so; The Fred. W. Chase, 31 Fed. ..."
3. Modern Seamanship by Austin Melvin Knight (1921)
"When both distance and bearing are incorrect: (a) Increase speed and change
course, if abaft the bearing. , (b) Decrease or maintain speed (according to the ..."
4. Great Lakes Pilot...1921 by United States Hydrographic Office (1921)
"Steer the same course and distance as above to Devils Island Light, when change
course to 84° (E. } N.) for 98i miles to the breakwater at Portage Lake Ship ..."
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