true course

noun

, Navigation.

In fact, I am persuaded that my true course is to be master of myself and of my time.

While he had winked his eyes, so it seemed to him, the true course had fairly straddled away from the lubber line.

According to his ample knowledge of the shoals, he had been on his true course and well off the dangerous shallows.

In some instances the needle has been drawn as much as seven degrees from its true course.

To steer the true course, one must not only see the star but have a pilot.

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