nautical star

American  

[naw-tik-uhl stahr] / ˈnɔ tɪk əl ˈstɑr /

noun

plural

nautical stars

1. any bright star used by sailors to navigate or to take their bearings.

2. a five-point star symbol ✯ with alternating dark and light shades.

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Example Sentences

The agents also fixated on a tattoo Ramirez has on his left forearm, which reads “La Paz—BCS,” with the letters written around a blue nautical star.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 15, 2017

A standard nautical star in the Great Bear.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

The bright star in the constellation Cygnus, well known as a standard nautical star.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

The lucida of Taurus, the well-known nautical star, popularly called Bull's-eye.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

One of the ancient constellations, of which the lucida is the well-known nautical star Betelgeuze.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir