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Definition of Offings
1. offing [n] - See also: offing
Lexicographical Neighbors of Offings
Literary usage of Offings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Sailing Directory for the Ethiopic Or South Atlantic Ocean, Including the by Alexander G. Findlay (1867)
"FROM THE offings OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE HOME. After having doubled the Cape
and crossed the parallel of 30° S. in the Atlantic •we come to a fork in the ..."
2. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1842)
"... send away home every one of the receiving vessels now anchored in the various
offings, and should no longer suffer them to linger about as heretofore. ..."
3. Physical Survey of Virginia: Her Geographical Position; Its Commercial by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1868)
"Easy of ingress and egress, its offings are as convenient, as safe and as sure
as a navigator could desire. They are already preparing docks there for the ..."
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