A constant error points to some constant defect of observation; whether it may be instrumental or otherwise, I must leave to the judgment of my nautical readers.
They would afford, as I have often thought, materials for an interesting volume, the perusal of which would give the general reader some idea of what nautical surveying really is.
It's all very well when there isn't a swell, But when that comes on I must toddle And go down below, for a bit of a blow Upsets my un-nautical noddle.
What makes me settle my innermost soul On winning a purposeless silver pot, And walk with a (very much) nautical roll?
He then adds that we could "bring up"--why these unpleasantly suggestive nautical expressions?
As a natural consequence, I soon became the intimate companion of every boatman in the harbour; I acquired, to a considerable extent, their tastes and prejudices, and soon mastered all the nautical lore which it was in their power to teach me.
And you have the true nautical pronunciation also, I perceive.
I then look at the scale scratched on the tube, and find that it reads six thousand one hundred feet--which is a few feet over one nautical mile.
Lucky for me that my ancient nautical habit of sticking on to a horse came back.
The coil on deck is most beautifully uncoiling at the rate of threenautical miles an hour.
Flamsteed, one of the leading astronomers of the day, was appointed Astronomer Royal in 1675, with the definite object of producing a new catalogue of star positions, tide tables, and other nautical data.
The British naval authorities pointed out to King Charles II the need for correct nautical tables.
These activities of geographical investigators led to improved methods of navigation, nautical surveying, sounding and shipbuilding, besides supplying an enormous amount of scientific data.
Greenwich observatory was publishing at the end of the eighteenth century the Nautical Almanac, and annual reports on star and meteorological observations as well as important astronomical monographs.
The Greeks, before their subjugation to the Roman power, had paid much attention to nautical affairs; but this had been chiefly for warlike dominion, rather than for commercial purposes.
The number of knots, which pass off every half minute, indicates the number of miles which the ship sails per hour; hence, in nautical language, knots and miles are synonymous terms.
The French Connaissance des Temps is published for the same purpose as the English Nautical Almanac, and nearly on the same plan.
By comparing these with the distances carefully observed at sea the mariner may, with comparative ease, infer his longitude to a degree of accuracy unattainable in any other way, and sufficient for most nautical purposes.
These claims being satisfied, but few places will be left to fill up with mathematicians, astronomers, and persons conversant with nautical astronomy.
POND--Astronomer Royal, Inspector of Chronometers, and Superintendent of theNautical Almanac.
Nor would a superintendent of the Nautical Almanac, if he made a point of being acquainted with every thing connected with his subject, find his situation at all a sinecure.
Down by the Docks, such dealers exhibiting on a frame a complete nautical suit without the refinement of a waxen visage in the hat, present the imaginary wearer as drooping at the yard-arm, with his seafaring and earthfaring troubles over.
They were an upper set on a rotten staircase, with a mysterious bunk or bulkhead on the landing outside them, of a rather nautical and Screw Collier-like appearance than otherwise, and painted an intense black.
There were carpenters and painters from the neighbouring buildings under repair, and there were nautical men, and there were, as one diner observed to me, 'some of most sorts.
Farther back, on the landward side of our unobtrusive street, commercial and nautical elements were more mingled with things appertaining to domestic life.
In the olden time the owners of these nautical huts dwelt in them, hence the name of "hoveller" which is used at the present day.
Of the twelve, six were small brigs, corresponding in size and nautical powers to the privateer.
There's what we should be wanting from you: and as for nautical astronomy, poh, a man with your scientific habit would pick all that up in no time.
If a statement like this was calculated to be taken as derived from local knowledge, it would not in any case disclose much nautical experience.
Supposing that he landed at Cape Breton, the distance in a straight line on the course indicated is about 2200 nautical miles.
As for Jack, he maintained his post in silence, sitting with his arms crossed, and the hands thrust into the breast of his jacket, sailor fashion, a picture of nautical vigilance.
Experienced as he was in chases and all sorts of nautical artifices, he very well knew that his situation was sufficiently critical.
The surgeon and purser were also there, though they stood a little apart from the more nautical dignitaries.
I could almost think I heard your uncle entertaining me with one of his nautical discussions, I declare!
It is true the brigantine was a very beautiful, as well as an exceedingly swift vessel; but all this was lost on Rose, who would have admired a horse-jockey bound to the West Indies, in this the incipient state of her nautical knowledge.
He asked a great many questions, all of which bore on the more nautical features of the event; and, day having now fairly appeared, he examined the purchases and backings of the Swash with professional nicety.
Thus it is, that at Greenwich, in England, where there is an observatory made for nautical purposes, the sun rises about five hours sooner than it does here.
He seemed to avoid this inconvenience by a species of nautical instinct.
Spike, in a very nautical sort of style of addressing an inferior.
The most severe nauticalcritic could scarcely have found a fault in her, as she passed out between the islets, on the evening of the day mentioned, in the sort of undress we have described.
Here was a flight in science and nautical language that poor Mulford could not have anticipated, even in the captain's relict!
At that moment even Harry Mulford would have lost a good deal in her kind feelings toward him, had he so much as smiled at one of the widow's nautical absurdities.
The language one hears is of a strictly nautical description; and every third house or so is a lodging-house for sailors.
There is nothing here except an occasional piece of nautical slang to suggest the jolly British tar.
For all who have read nautical literature the place is peopled with memories.
Or rather, it may be presumed, that bearing in mind the wholesale forays made upon them by their nautical visitors, they consider the property of the latter as a fair object of reprisal.
Astronomer Royal for forty-seven years; was the first man to weigh the earth; the originator of the Nautical Almanac.
Another officer has made a duplicate of the official chart of this part of the Pacific, and still another has copied all the Nautical Almanac tables necessary for navigation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nautical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: marine; maritime; nautical; navigational; oceanic; pelagic; salty; seafaring
