oblique sailing

American  

noun

1. the navigation of a vessel on a point of the compass other than one of the cardinal points.

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oblique sailing British  

noun

1. a ship's movement on a course that is not due north, south, east, or west

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Etymology

Origin of oblique sailing

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

Loxodromic, lok-so-drom′ik, adj. pertaining to certain lines on the surface of a sphere which cut all meridians at the same angle, and indicate the course held by ships in rhumb sailing.—Loxodromic curve, line, or spiral, the course of a ship oblique to the equator and cutting all the meridians at the same angle, sailing constantly toward the same point of the compass.—Loxodromics, the art of such oblique sailing.

From Project Gutenberg

All the curving lines of the hull agreed well together, but it was not long enough for oblique sailing, or for lying parallel with the water displaced, which should always be thrown off laterally.

From Project Gutenberg

Sailing, or the sailings, is a term applied to the different ways in which the path of a ship at sea, and the variations of its geographical position, are represented on paper, all which are explained under the various heads of great circle sailing, Mercator's sailing, middle latitude sailing, oblique sailing, parallel sailing, plane sailing.

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