nautical

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raised the nautical flag indicating that they had captured a marlin

My nautical senses told me we were somewhere off the coast of northern Florida,  (source) Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters, 2006

Do you know how to read nautical flags?†  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

This whole area's a nautical graveyard.†  (source) Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, 2011

You left the high school a quarter of a mile behind still hearing the big flag snapping and the halyard beating nautically on the pole and you powered your car into the wind and saw dust sweep across the road and you drove into a white sky feeling useless and dumb.†  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

Vic and Fisheye sit down in the main cabin belowdecks, eating, going through Chinese magazines, looking at pictures of Asian chicks, and occasionally looking at nautical charts.†  (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

Driving up to see Susan Marie Heine, Art muddled out his words in silence, revising as he went and planning his demeanor, which ought, he decided, to have a vaguely military architecture with certain nautical decorative touches—to report a man's death at sea to his widow was a task done gravely but with tragic stoicism for centuries on end, he figured.†  (source) David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars, 1995

He was responsible for an area forty nautical miles across, and his sector overlapped the ones east and west so that, theoretically, three operators were constantly monitoring any segment of the barrier.†  (source) Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October, 1984

The floor was yellow and white tile, and the booths were upholstered in nautical blue.†  (source) Becca Fitzpatrick, Hush, Hush, 2009

He sat hunched, bitterly smiling, as always, his muscles taut as old nautical ropes in a hurricane.†  (source) John Gardner, Grendel, 1971

He asked him if he could find a specific spot sixteen nautical miles to the northwest of the largest island in the Sotavento Archipelago, and Euclides told him yes.†  (source) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, 1988

Snapped wood, frayed rope, and tattered sails had been left in their wake, a trail of nautical carnage.†  (source) Henry H. Neff, The Second Siege, 2008

I wasn't sure whether he had a nautical past and was pining for it, or was hoping for one still ahead.†  (source) Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key, 2008