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Definition of Pilots
1. pilot [v] - See also: pilot
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilots
Literary usage of Pilots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Code of Virginia: With the Declaration of Independence and Constitution by Virginia, John Mercer Patton, Conway Robinson (1849)
"Forfeiture to pilots for concealing name of vessel. 81.1 22. ... Penalties on
pilots for demanding more than lawful fees, &c. 35. Refusing to pilot a vessel ..."
2. The Political Code of the State of New York by David Dudley Field, William Curtis Noyes, Alexander Warfield Bradford, New York (State). (1860)
"Apprentices and deputy pilots. 338. Regulations to be made by board of wardens.
339. ... Others than pilots not to act as such. 346. Penalties. 847. ..."
3. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"The Legislature may authorize a local board £o prescribe limits for pilot grounds
and require pilots to cruise therein, as well as adopt regulations to ..."
4. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (1883)
"Of course there were some few pilots that could judge of alligator water nearly as
... —all A 1 alligator pilots. They could tell alligator water as far as ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"COAST pilots, a book compiled to assist mariners in the navigation of their ...
Since the latter date numerous compilers have published coast pilots of the ..."
6. pennsylvania archives by Pennsylvania State Library, Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth (1878)
"These are strictly to charge and require the several pilots belonging to any of
the Ports within the said Province and Counties, that they make diligent ..."
7. The Justice of the Peace and Parish Officer by Richard Burn, Joseph Chitty, Thomas Chitty (1837)
"admitted and licensed as all others hereafter to be licensed as such pilots; 8.
The Pilot and it shall be lawful in such rules and regulations to establish ..."
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