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dead slow

American  

adverb

Nautical.
  1. as slow as possible without losing steerageway.


Example Sentences

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The ComPilots provide the latest autopilot technology, including automatic bowthruster assist for dead slow or station keeping.

From Time Magazine Archive

Their program is: full speed ahead in economics and education, dead slow in politics.

From Time Magazine Archive

Snow squalls and heavy seas made visibility poor and forced Endurance to creep forward with the engines dead slow as it headed into Stromness Bay.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Fortunately we were going dead slow, so it was all right.

From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford

I'm getting it so it will run again, but it's dead slow.

From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert