If we were forced to go to the Pole on dead reckoning, then surely the most exacting would admit our right to do so.
By noon we had reached 89° 53' by dead reckoning, and made ready to take the rest in one stage.
In addition, I had an Appleyard Course and Distance Calculator, and Traverse tables for the calculation of "dead reckoning.
Assuming that my first observations were satisfactory, I therefore carried on by "dead reckoning," and hoped for the best.
A ship's navigator knows to a small fraction of a mile the set of any ocean current, and from the known speed of his vessel he can keep "dead reckoning" with an accuracy that is nearly absolute.
To find your position by dead reckoning, you go on the theory that small sections of the earth are flat.
Just try to get a clear idea of the different sailings mentioned and the theory of Dead Reckoning in Arts.
Then come the flags which give the reckoning of the navigator on each ship as to latitude and longitude, either by observation or dead reckoning, and you comment upon the variations in the reports.
Some days' runs were estimated by dead reckoning, and there was no way of determining to a knot the distance that the ships travelled.
The sky remained overcast and the fleet had been running for three days practically by dead reckoning.
With that equipment I can keep track of our course by dead reckoning.
From time to time he asked Curly to check their position by dead reckoning.
A man who can keep any sort of dead reckoning in a storm like the one we just rode through will do to cross the river with.
By dead reckoning, this point of the river is fifty-five miles due west from Gallabat or Metemma; throughout this distance we had seen no game, neither the tracks of any animals except giraffes.
And this latitude agreed with the latitude of the previous noon corrected by dead reckoning up to that moment.
During the twenty-four hours that ended Friday at noon, by dead reckoning we had not sailed twenty miles.
Now I shall chart my position and prove it by dead reckoning.
They had to navigate first by dead reckoning, following the landmarks in the vicinity of King's Bay.
They turned around, after adjusting their compasses, and made once more for Paris by dead reckoning.
He had to navigate the whole trip back by dead reckoning!
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dead reckoning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
