coast pilot
Americannoun
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Also called pilot. a manual published by a government for mariners, containing descriptions of coastal waters, harbor facilities, etc., for a specific area.
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a pilot of coasting vessels.
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Going round the corner of the church, I came upon a coast pilot, peering through his glass for the smoke of a steamer, cable-freighted, that had been momentarily expected from Halifax for a week.
From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Samuel Adams Drake
She was visited by a Brazilian naval officer, who congratulated her captain not a little on his fortunate escape, the Brazilian men-of war never thinking of attempting the passage without a coast pilot.
From The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter by Raphael Semmes
"Do you know the coast, pilot?" observed the captain to Schriften, who stood by.
From The Phantom Ship by Frederick Marryat
Edwards was coast pilot for the Government steamer “Vanderbilt.”
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Hudson Tuttle
We found the harbor very small, with rocks not shown in chart or coast pilot, and had barely room to come to without going ashore.
From Bowdoin Boys in Labrador An Account of the Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador led by Prof. Leslie A. Lee of the Biological Department by Jonathan Prince Cilley
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