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Definition of Nautical
1. Adjective. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen. "Marine insurance"
Definition of Nautical
1. a. Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships; as, nautical skill.
Definition of Nautical
1. Adjective. Relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nautical
1. pertaining to ships [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nautical
Literary usage of Nautical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1909)
"US nautical almanac office. American ephemeris and nautical almanac for year 190S.
... Definitions in navigation and nautical astronomy. *$1.25. ..."
2. A Complete Practice of the County Courts: Including that in Admiralty and by George Pitt-Lewis, Henry Anselm De Colyar (1880)
"Assessors in County Courts in Admiralty are of two kinds— viz.. nautical and ...
The cases in which nautical assessors may be called in are however only ..."
3. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1854)
"... land 6} nautical, equal to " J statute miles, where it commences to deepen
beyond 3 fathoms. At a distance of 6 nautical miles from the land there is, ..."
4. Proceedings of the ... Annual Congress of Correction of the American by American Correctional Association (1871)
"The principal fact which gives prominence to the Massachusetts nautical reform
school is ... In the United States our nautical schools are of recent origin. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"Bread barge (nautical), the tray in which biscuit is banded round. ...
Bread-room (nautical), an old term for stomach. The waiter returned with a quartern ..."
6. Our Naval War with France by Gardner Weld Allen (1909)
"VI THE nautical DAT The con fusion of the civil and the nautical day,1 resulting
in the insertion of twenty-four imaginary hours, seems first to occur in ..."
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