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rhumb sailing

noun

  1. sea navigation along rhumb lines.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of rhumb sailing1

First recorded in 1890–95
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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.

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