compass course
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of compass course
First recorded in 1850–55
Example Sentences
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The navigator set a compass course southeastward towards St. Thomas.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dirty fog shut down over all of the south-east by daylight, forcing the flyer to steer a compass course over a mist-blotted earth.
From Time Magazine Archive
In any case, war between Germany and Russia called for a new compass course from Skipper Curran.
From Time Magazine Archive
Comte leveled out on a compass course for Bloemfontein and nosed out of the cloud.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was beginning to think that a slight error in the compass course had taken them past the low-lying and almost invisible sandbank for which they were steering.
From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
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