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oblique sailing

oblique sailing noun: the movement of a ship when she sails upon some rhumb between the four cardinal points, making an oblique angle with the meridian.

Noun

oblique sailing (uncountable)

  1. The movement of a ship when she sails upon some rhumb between the four cardinal points, making an oblique angle with the meridian.

Questions about oblique sailing

What does oblique sailing mean?
Oblique sailing means the movement of a ship when she sails upon some rhumb between the four cardinal points, making an oblique angle with the meridian.
What part of speech is oblique sailing?
Oblique sailing is a noun.

Words near oblique sailing in the dictionary

  1. oblique reflections
  2. oblique rhyme
  3. oblique rhymes
  4. oblique ridge
  5. oblique ridges
  6. oblique sailing
  7. oblique shock
  8. oblique shocks
  9. oblique spaceship
  10. oblique spaceships
  11. oblique speech

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