Then came the day, when, steering east by south, they started to "run theireasting down.
Back into warmer climes, they busied themselves overhauling the schooner's rigging after the strain of the easting run, and on the morning of a fine summer's day they struck soundings in the muddy estuary of the River Plate.
It was intensely monotonous and the adventurous spells were only occasional, like the time we ran the easting down the Horn.
If I am any judge of the weather, the wind will have more easting in it, than you may happen to find to your fancy.
A wise mariner would get all his easting in time to me, there is a smack of West-Indies about it.
After calling at the Cape of Good Hope Cook started to make hisEasting down to New Zealand, purposing to sail as far south as possible in search of a southern continent.
The thirty torpedoes sped through the sea; the British replied with the two broadside tubes in each ship, as those tubes bore.
Indeed, their presence was to a great extent a safeguard against annoyance, as the stable and back premises were stuffed full of soldiers, who might have been very troublesome had they not been there to keep them in order.
We were thousands of miles from anywhere, in the South Indian Ocean at the time, running our Easting down, but the cook got the idea into his addled head that we were lying in Boston Harbour, and that I wouldn't let him go ashore.
And yet here you are, with all the stuff of the sea in you, running down your eastingfor port.
They talk about running the easting down," Mr. Pike chortled to me, as we clung to the poop-rail to keep from fetching away and breaking ribs and necks.
Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc.
Meridional distance, the distance or departure from the meridian; the easting or westing.
I had been in smart ships, had run my Easting down in southern waters more than once, had made the eastern passage of the Western Ocean with the winter storm on my back the whole distance.
He remembered one time running theEasting down in the Josiah T.
My experience in running down the Easting has always been the same and I have made the trip a number of times.
Through our ninety degrees of Easting I had but little exercise.
She has made all the easting necessary, and by this time she has laid her course about south-west," continued the commander.
It was possible that the Dornoch had proceeded directly to the southward, after making lesseasting than was anticipated.
We made a fair passage through the Trades and commenced to run the Easting down.
We were running our easting down on the parallel of 46° S.
Once we caught a moderate gale from the south, which blew itself out in eight hours, but it helped us to seventy-one miles of easting in that particular twenty-four hours.
It is true that Captain Bruce found no variables on his traverse, and that he "never could make easting on either tack.
In his passage between them in November, 1837, he had no variables near the line in coming south, and never could make easting on either tack, though he endeavoured by every means to do so.
By this time we had made easting sufficient to place us well to the windward of our destination in any probable shift of wind.
This was more important as the prevailing winds appeared to be to easterly, and every mile of easting would count.
Our desire was to make easting as well as southing so as to reach the land, if possible, east of Ross's farthest South and well east of Coats' Land.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "easting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
