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Dutchman's log
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noun Nautical.
a method of gauging a ship's speed, in which the distance between two shipboard observation stations is divided by the time elapsing between the throwing overboard of an object by the first station and the sighting of it by the second.
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āWasā is used for the indicative past tense of āto be,ā and āwereā is only used for the subjunctive past tense.
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