All 4 Uses of
nautical
in
Moby Dick
- In front is a leather rack, in which to keep your speaking trumpet, pipe, telescope, and other nautical conveniences.†
Chpt 34-36 *
- This was the fourth time in my nautical life that I had done the same thing.†
Chpt 49-51
- Besides, it was the stronger men in the Town-Ho that had been divided into gangs, taking turns at the pumps; and being the most athletic seaman of them all, Steelkilt had been regularly assigned captain of one of the gangs; consequently he should have been freed from any trivial business not connected with truly nautical duties, such being the case with his comrades.†
Chpt 52-54
- It belongs to the pure nautical mathematics.†
Chpt 76-78
Definition:
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(nautical) relating to or involving ships or shipping or navigation or seamen