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Definition of Riding light
1. Noun. A light in the rigging of a ship that is riding at anchor.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Riding Light
Literary usage of Riding light
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Collisions at Sea: With an Appendix, Containing by Reginald Godfrey Marsden (1897)
"A riding light should not be placed where it is obscured riding light in any ...
The forestay is a usual, and probably the best, place for a riding light in ..."
2. The Law Relating to Waters, Sea, Tidal, and Inland: Including Rights and by Henry John Wastell Coulson, Urquhart Atwell Forbes (1902)
"(/') Lighters lying at the usual barge moorings in the riser above Graves- end
are not required to exhibit the riding light. The length of a vessel shall be ..."
3. The Law Relating to Waters, Sea, Tidal, and Inland: Including Rights and by Henry John Wastell Coulson, Urquhart Atwell Forbes (1902)
"(/') Lighters ly,ng at the usual barge moorings in the river above Graves- end
are not required to exhibit the riding light. (••) Every steam vessel sailing ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Collisions at Sea: With an Appendix, Containing by Reginald Godfrey Marsden (1880)
"When there is a haze on the water which obscures the riding light at the elevation
required by the Regulations, it seems to be doubtful whether a ship is, ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Collisions at Sea: With an Appendix, Containing by Reginald Godfrey Marsden (1904)
"A riding light should not be placed where it is obscured in Ridin any direction
by masts, spars, sails, or rigging. The forestay obscured. is a usual, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Collisions at Sea: With an Appendix Containing the by Reginald Godfrey Marsden, John William Mansfield (1891)
"riding light must not be obscured. Sheering about. by the maritime law a ship
under way ... A riding light was first required by law in the year 1852 (A-). ..."
7. A Treatise on the Law of Collisions at Sea: With an Appendix, Containing by Reginald Godfrey Marsden (1885)
"But a tug moored to a boom anchored in a fair-way was held in fault for having
no riding light lip (.r). (?) See supra, p. 329. E. 303 ; Kidson v. ..."
8. North Sea Pilot (eastern Shores): From Dunkerque to the Skaw by United States Hydrographic Office (1918)
"During bad weather the two lights 47 and 36 feet above the water will be lowered
to heights of 39 and 29 feet, respectively; a riding light is shown. ..."
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