nautical star
Americannoun
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any bright star used by sailors to navigate or to take their bearings.
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a five-point star symbol ✯ with alternating dark and light shades.
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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
The eighth sign of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 22d of October. α Scorpii, Antares; a 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
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
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
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
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