pilot station
Americannoun
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Also called pilotage. an onshore office or headquarters for pilots.
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an area in which pilot boats cruise.
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Eco Wave Power, an Israel-based company, is set to install the first U.S. onshore wave energy pilot station in the coming months on the port’s Main Channel, next to AltaSea.
From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 2024
Like a firehouse, the pilot station must be continuously manned.
From BusinessWeek • Dec. 2, 2011
Hazelwood's attorneys insist that the point of freedom was the established pilot station at Rocky Point, some seven miles north of the reef.
From Time Magazine Archive
That memo states that the Coast Guard had waived pilotage requirements from the pilot station to the sound's entrance.
From Time Magazine Archive
SE. of London; the new town rises amid picturesque surroundings above the old town; it is the chief pilot station for the river; there is a busy trade in shipbuilding, iron-founding, brewing, &c.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
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